Vowel

What if one day you went to the dentist to get a simple operation done and you woke up speaking with a foreign accent? Well that is exactly what happened to a woman living in Oregon who has never been to Europe or even lived in a foreign country. Karen Butler woke up from surgery that was just getting a couple teeth removed and noticed that she had started talking weirdly. The Dentist said it would go away in a few days, but after a month she still was talking strangely. Karen Butler had…

surprised by her lack knowledge in short vowel sounds in her writing during our writing prompt in the next…

art of black and white photography to create her artwork. The final creations are on a 24x20in. selenium toned gelatin silver print. Natal uses letters of the alphabet, specifically vowels, and nature as her artwork subject matter. Her piece Totems is a part of a collection called “Earthworld” where she shapes the vowels into a human stick figure shape next to a tree in…

Assessments. The Phonics Mastery Survey is an informal tool for assessing various phonics elements. This assessment measures a student’s ability to recognize consonant sounds, rhyming words, consonant digraphs, long vowel sounds, words with CVC patterns, consonant blends, variant vowel sounds, and syllables in words (DeVries 2011 p.112). A student’s ability to use knowledge of sound/letter correspondences to decode words, determines his or her ability to read individual words. Knowing the…

Once upon a time, there was a girl whose first language was Arabic. When she was a kid, she admired anyone who could speak English. She had a dream of speaking English one day. As a result, she had a strong desire to learn English. This girl is me, Eman. I am starting my language learning autobiography as a story because stories always have value, and are worth a lot to someone. My English learning autobiography expand several stages of my life: elementary, middle, high school, college, and my…

the word “best” by taking out the “est”. This showed a relationship between the word west and best because of the “est” letters and the sound it makes. It then transitioned into another song which focused specifically on the “e” vowel sound within the word and how that vowel sounds…

word in the poem because it emphasizes permanent change. “Voice” is an important word in the poem because essentially, the entire sonnet is generally about the impact of a voice. The vowels that prevail throughout the poem are the “E” in Eve and the “O” sounds in “lost”, “aloft”, and “long” among many others. The vowel sounds in each of these words contribute to the movement of the sonnet as well as the concepts of the sonnet. The “e” in Eve emphasizes the story of Adam and Eve, but it also does…

chosen two problems of transfer that are segmental because they deal with phonemes (sounds), which can cause misunderstandings when not pronounced correctly. I consider the ‘‘th’’ sound as a sound that does not exist in Spanish and short and long vowel sounds /I/ versus /i/ and sounds that cause miscommunication when mispronounced bu Speakers who are learning English. In addition, I describe the possible solutions to the obstacles for th sound and /I/ vs. /i/ as…

When the Puritans came to America they strived on educating their children in a more proficient way. Better education would help enhance their way of living. There are many ways that the Puritan view of education is similar and different as to what we have today in America. There are similarities between the way that the Puritans viewed education and the way that Americans do today. Puritan students went to school first just as our students do today in order to prepare themselves for college.…

looking three different places, I tried to create images Jesus, Moses and Elijah Breath control and posture: I stand up, on my open legs. I breathe before starting to read to have a better production of voice. Vocal production: Because my breathing vowels had better sounds. Voice and Interpretation: Tone of my voice varied. I did no use word contractions. Use of eyes: When reading I tried to make eye contact with the audience, also by using my eyes and looking three different places to create…