I could not agree with you more. I am a retired ESL teacher who has been working with Ukrainians displaced by the war for most of the last year. I was delighted to discover that almost all of the adults that I teach have a good knowledge of IPA, which they learn in school. Here in Canada, I only discovered IPA in the course of doing my first linguistics degree, and I consider myself fortunate to have this knowledge.
It has made it so much easier for me to help them with pronunciation, not only of individual phonemes but also connected speech. And learning their writing system has been of immense assistance also.
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I could not agree with you more. I am a retired ESL teacher who has been working with Ukrainians displaced by the war for most of the last year. I was delighted to discover that almost all of the adults that I teach have a good knowledge of IPA, which they learn in school. Here in Canada, I only discovered IPA in the course of doing my first linguistics degree, and I consider myself fortunate to have this knowledge.
It has made it so much easier for me to help them with pronunciation, not only of individual phonemes but also connected speech. And learning their writing system has been of immense assistance also.
I just subscribed today and I look forward to reading more of your articles.
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Thank you!