Phonology for Teachers

1. How
do
children
learn
language
?

2. Members
Miss Patcharaporn Radapat
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Miss Sakolsupa Harnsamer
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Miss Areeya Hongsuwan
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Miss Amphaphan Prasrirake
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3. Stage2 - Learning Words
Stage 3 – Learning Sentences
Stage1 – Learning Sounds

4. Stage 1 - Learning Sounds
 Babies listen to sounds that are close to
them. They will copy what they hear and see.
 In this stage, the ability to recognize and
produce those sounds is called “phonemic
awareness,” which is important for children
learning to read.

5. • Sounds come to have meaning.
• They begin to babble around four to six months
age.
• The babbling sound "ma - ma - ma" of the
infant becomes mama.
• The most common early consonants in word-
intial position are /p/, /b/, /d/, /m/, /n/, /h/
Stage 2 - Learning Words

6. • By age two, they can produce the following
sounds; /p/, /b/, /d/, /t/, /k/, /g/, /m/, /n/, /f/, /s/,
and /w/
• There are five vowel sounds are typically
acquired quite early – /I/, /A/, /u/, and /^/
• And by age four, they can pronounce all of
consonant sounds exception; /T/ and //.
Stage 2 - Learning Words

7. • They often delete consonants at the end of a
syllable such as, pronouncing gum as ‘guh’ and
nose is ‘no’
Stage 2 - Learning Words

8. Stage 3 – Learning Sentences
During this stage, children learn how to create
sentences.
By 2-3 years old, about 90% of what children
say is grammatically correct.
But the mistakes they make are usually
mistakes like adding -ed to irregular verbs to form
the past tense.
• 6 – 12 years old: syntactic and lexical
complexity, and know more vocabularies.
• 12+ years old: Devolve to conversational skills.

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