Week 8 – This ‘aint simple! July 2, 2010
Posted by Liz Mead in : TESOL , trackbackCaptain’s Log: Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made, those are pearls that were his eyes, nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea change – into something rich and strange. (The Tempest)
This week has been like a runaway train.
It began by watching a brilliant pronunciation teacher identify and correct erros to the beat of syncopated jazz. I am deeply admiring of those who do this for a living.
Later that night in a language analysis session, I took on way too many functions and way too many forms! Though S and the watch were pretty funny.
In the following class we got the dirt on the phonology assessment: Piece of Cake! In 20 mins - translate phrases of phonemes into words and vice versa, describe where in the oral cavity we form sounds, tick off inflections and stress, and throw in a few suprasegmentals – what IS suprasegmental?? Let me say our booking agent wasn’t overwhelmed with offers.
Chugging into the station for the micro teaching class, where we unpacked the food chain and designed a zoo with passive verbs and polite suggestions, I realised my train was starting to de-rail.
By the time we got to the last lesson, where we learnt how to describe things that will have occured sometime between now and the future that hasn’t happened yet, I was ready to pull the emergency switch.
And the coach wants me to keep it simple.
Sigh.
Choo Choo.
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Suprasegmental -ah yes, a rather grand word.
What does it mean?
Well it means everything to do with pronunciation that goes above (supra) the little parts (segmental). in other words, it’s not just about phonemes but about where we place the stress in a sentence to reflect our meaning, how intonation can show the intention, mood, meaning etc of the speaker. All that sort of thing.
Easy, innit?