ENGLISH

PRONUNCIATION
Introduction
Eka Pratiwi Sudirman, M.Pd.
 COURSE REQUIREMENTS

 Join the class on time and

stay for the entire class
period. Tolerance for being  You can turn off your
late maximum 15 minutes. camera if you have poor
internet connection.

 Be polite and respectful  In case of an absence, please let the

towards lecturers and fellow class representative knows as soon as
classmates. possible

 You can turn off your  Submit all the tasks on time.
camera if you have poor
internet connection.
Course Description
This course provides the students with practical skills and
theoretical bases in pronouncing English words, phrases, and
sentences in dialogues and passages. It consists of an 80%
practical component and a 20% theoretical one. The practical
component focuses on students’ practice of pronouncing
individual words, phrases, and sentences in dialogues and
passages, with the lecturer giving the model pronunciation and
providing supervision and feedback. The production of sounds
is emphasized when pronouncing words, stress patterns when
pronouncing phrases, and intonations when pronouncing
sentences. The theoretical component deals with basic
concepts of the English sound system and how the sounds are
transcribed phonetically. Students have a lot of practices in
transcribing words, phrases, and sentences in either dialogues
or passages. Students are required to do the following: (a)
attend the class (>75%), (b) do assignments, (c) take the mid
semester test, and (d) take the final semester test.
 COURSE OBJECTIVES

First
Skills in pronouncing individual
words, phrases, and sentences
in dialogues and passages

Second
A basic knowledge of the English sound system and how the
sounds are transcribed phonetically

Third
Positive attitudes to the learning of English
pronunciation

You can simply impress your

audience and add a unique
zing.
Evaluation
Affective

10%
Assignments

20%
MID

30%
FINAL

40%
 TOPICS
From Symbol to
American Vowel Letters Sounds:
From Symbol to (Phonetic Consonant
Introduction to English Sounds: Vowel Transcription). Letters (Phonetic
English Phonetic Letters (Phonetic *Individual Transcription).
Organs of
Pronunciation symbols V Transcription). Practice *Group
Speech *Group
(The English British English assignment
Intonation assignment
sounds system, Phonetic
and Phonetic symbols
symbols) (Vowels): In
Pair Meeting 6
Assignment.
Meeting 5

Meeting 4

Meeting 3

Meeting 2

Meeting 1
 TOPICS
Palato-Alveolar The Labio-Dental
Velar Plosives Affricates and Fricatives and
and Bilabial Palato- Alveolar Alveolar Fricatives.
Consonant Plosives. Fricatives. Phonetic
Letters Alveolar Phonetic Phonetic transcription: Group
transcription: transcription: Assignment and
(Phonetic Plosives Group Assignment Individual Practicet
Group
Transcription). Mid-term Dental Assignment and and Individual
*Individual Fricatives / t , Individual Practice
Practice d/ Practice

Meeting 12

Meeting 11

Meeting 10

Meeting 9

Meeting 8

Meeting 7
 The Sound System of English
Introduction
All languages have two forms, the oral and the written.
Words in any spoken language are primarily a combination
of various speech sounds. Hence to speak any language
the fi rst essential thing is to produce the sounds of that
language correctly.
In languages such as Bahasa Indonesia, each sound has
one letter to represent this in the written form. However, it
is not so in the English language. English has 44 sounds
but only 26 letters to represent them. Hence various
combinations of letters are used to represent these
sounds; sometimes the same letter (or a combination of
letters) may represent different sounds. For example, the
letter ‘c’ represents two different sounds as shown below.

1) ‘C’ as in care, cake and cat (with/k/sound)

2) ‘C’ as in cinema, cell and city (with/s/sound)
 The use of silent letters sometimes complicates pronunciations
in English; thus,“knife” and “calm” which contain the silent letters
“k” and “l”, respectively, are not pronounced the way they are
spelt.

Further, when we put together the sounds of English to produce

continuous speech, we need to pay attention to some other
features of English such as stress and intonation patterns, strong
and weak forms of words, etc. When we speak sentences in
English all words are not pronounced with the same breath force.
Some words are spoken strongly with greater breath force while
others are spoken relatively weakly. For example:

• Send him away.

• Put it in on the table.
What is a vowel sound?
 What is a consonant sound?
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consonant01 sound is one in which the air stream coming out of the lungs is modifi
ed in the mouth cavity by some blockage created by the tongue, lips, etc. When you
say the sound of ‘p’ as in ‘pen’ a blockage is created in the outgoing breath by
closing both the lips and thus, a consonant sound is produced. The charts on the
following pages illustrate all the vowel and consonant sounds of English.
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 Vowel Sounds

STRENGTHS

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WEAKNESS

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Consonant sounds