They look at the inner workings of language. Why language works like it does, in other words. Think of learning about linguistics in the same way you’d learn how an internal combustion engine works. Linguistics is what’s under the hood… you don’t need to know it to drive a car, but it helps understand what’s going on if you ever break down!
So… TEFL teachers should find these useful in providing more of a background to their teaching and students, too, will find them helpful in understanding language at a slightly deeper level.
The IPA or International Phonetic Alphabet is an alphabet of sounds (not letters). It is used to show how to pronounce words. Using the IPA in your class is a useful tool to give your students. It will help them understand the pronunciation of English words they find in the […]
Intonation is the system of rising and falling levels, as well as variations in pitch sequences, when we speak. People don’t talk in a monotone (unless they’re very boring) but instead there is rising and falling in what they say. In other words, intonation is the melody of speech. Intonation […]
There are many approaches to the study of language: cultural, social, artistic, historical etc. There is also an approach which looks at language and how the brain manages to decode and use it. To explore this idea, take a look at this famous sentence: Colorless green dreams sleep furiously. It […]
The Facts Surat is a port city in the state of Gujarat situated on the banks of the Tapti river, in central India. Surat is one of the largest and most populous cities in India. It is the administrative capital of the Surat District, the 2nd largest city in the […]
The pictorial language of Ancient Egypt. Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts […]