As a preliminary step towards conducting a teacher survey on pronunciation teaching in order to design a phonetics course for current and prospective English teachers in Japan, this paper analyses six governmentapproved English textbooks used in junior high schools. The purposes are to examine the types of pronunciation activities in the textbooks and to discuss the knowledge of phonetics requi...

Speech is imperative for human communication. Therefore, phonetics must be considered , along with mechanics and esthetics as the integral factors in contributing to the success of a dental prothesis . Palatal rugae contours have a very important role in phonetics, by production of linguopalatal sounds that involves the contact between tongue and palate. By customizing palatal contours of a max...

Mandarin has been added to the list of second additional languages (SAL) that South African learners can choose from. The researchers proactively conducted research pertaining SAL (Mandarin) since it is a dynamic phenomenon in Africa. question was formulated as follows: Do factors such 1) phonemic differences between learners’ mother tongue and Chinese, 2) cognitive styles 3) abilities singing ...