Abstract
Author's Summary— Phonetics and its application to language teaching have enabled us to aim at accurate hearing and imitation; a further development of phonetics, phonemics, “essentializes” and “functionalizes” our understanding of sound‐patterns and furnishes the basis for a revised approach to grammatical structure.)Scene: A second‐year French class.Teacher: Lisez, s'il vous plait, M. Jones.Johnny Jones (slowly and painfully): Bar mer deet ler vyerz matoo ong mongtraynong voo ong vayrayz byang dohtrayz.Teacher (inwardly): Mon Dieu! (outwardly) Traduisez, s'il vous plait.Jones: Sir? Oh! Bah, said to me the old … er …Teacher: Tom‐cat.Jones: In entraining me …Teacher: Leading me away …Jones: You will see the others well.
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