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A question that is often asked by teachers is: Do we have to use phonetic transcription to teach the right pronunciation? The answer to this question may be: Strictly speaking — no. You can get along with, for instance, giving key words for the various vowels and number them: bead, no. 1; bid, no. 2; bed, no. 3, etc., and then in correcting your students’ pronunciation refer to the numbers. But the few hours spent on teaching phonetic transcription will always yield a tenfold reward.
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© 1959 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Siertsema, B. (1959). The Use of Phonetic Transcription. In: A Test in Phonetics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7752-8_5
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