[etni] Fwd: re: Teaching ABC by Visual Mnemonis
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From: Laurin Lewis <lewisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Teaching ABC by Visual Mnemonis
Marlene,
Bravo to your husband for finding a mnemonic key for eruption and –
I’ll bet – lots of other words besides. And if, as Ilana so gravely
warns (“God help us!”), he pronounces it with a guttural resh, is that
such a tragedy? Somewhere -- as English teachers -- we have to face a
trade-off between a pupil’s learning a word with a less-than-perfect
accent and not learning it at all. Granted, in a perfect world,
everyone would speak English like the BBC, but in that world a lot of
other things would be different too. Mnemonics, yalla!
Laurin Lewis
Self-Access English Learning Center
Ilana wrote:
> Oh, God help us all!
> And I'll bet he pronounced it that way too! /eeroppshen/ (with a gutteral
> resh)!
> And that's precisely what the original poster was talking about : (
> And why so many Israelis pronounce English so baaaadly!!
Marlene wrote:
> That's my husband's method. Here's how he remembered the word
> "eruption" - e=ee in Hebrew an island. So you have the visual of a
> volcanic eruption on an island. rup=sounds like Danny Ropp, the
> weather forecaster and "tion" sounds like tooth in Hebrew.
Laurin wrote:
> Kol hakavod for doing the research into the
> inspiration for our method of teaching the
> ABC. Yes, it was a study involving the teaching
> of the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet to English
> speaking students. Details follow.
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