In this semester 5, we have a subject named English For Language Teacher. In this subject, we are thought about phonology, sentence structure and other. The first topic that we learned is Language and Communications.

In this topic, we’ve learned about speech organs, English sound, how the English sound formed and others. For me, it is an interesting topic because this is a chance for me to improve my pronounciation of words, pronouns the word in correct way and can improve my understanding on various type of word structures in English.

Beside that, we also learned about speech organs. It consists of several organs in our body such as tongue, teeth, nose, lips, thorax, pharynx and many other. During class session, we have been asked to test it ourselves how the sound is produced with all speech organs.

Besides, we’ve learned about speech production. There are 3 sound (auditory) production processes. There are initiation, phonation and articulation. Other than that, we also learned about vowel sound, consonant sound and diftong sound. It gives us clearer view on the difference among alphabet and its sound. It is also an interesting aspect to be learned because we can identiy the correct way on pronouncing a word.

In this topic, we have learned about consonant and vowel sound. They can be described according to where they are produced and how they are produced. Consonant sound can be produced by many ways such as stop, affricate, nasal, fricative, approximant and lateral approximant. In other way, vowel is a sound without detectable change in quality from beginning to end. It is the results of changing the shape and the position of the tongue and the lips.

There are 2 main types of vowel which is simple vowels or monophthongs and diphthongs. The vowel and consonant in English is similar with Bahasa Malaysia but there are some differences among them. It is interesting to learn it. It gives me opportunity to speaks more fluently in English.