English Phonetics, Phonology and Spelling for the English Language Teacher

This resource supports TESOL preservice and in-service teachers and curriculum designers in teaching pronunciation more effectively.

Laurie Bauer, FRSNZ, is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of over twenty books including being one of the authors of The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (2013), which won the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities Medal.

List of Figures and Tables Preface Part I. Introductory material 1 Introduction 2 The phonetic background Part II. Mostly phonetics 3 Consonants 4 Vowels 5 Prosody 6 Phonotactics and syllables 7 Extra advice for teachers Part III. Phonology 8 Sound changes influenced by adjacent sounds 9 Morphophonemics 10 Stress rules 11 Free variation Part IV. Spelling 12 English spelling 13 Spelling consonants 14 Spelling vowels 15 Names and other difficult words Reading and References Index