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[Tony_Balony]

I work at a hogwan and I'm required to make material for advanced phonics. What is "advanced phonics"? Its just like regular phonics, but more advanced.

I have been using...

Pharmacueticals
Dinosaur Names
Latin and Greek Prefixes, Roots and Suffixes
Fish Classifications
Ethnic Names
Homophones
Periodic Table
Plant Names
Animal Names

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Advanced phonics should be about moving to suprasegmental phonology, rather than just syllable articulation. Rather than teaching them obscure individual words they'll almost never use (you may as well add biblical geneologies to your list) try focusing on phrases and short sentences, teaching stress, duration, loudness, pitch, syllables that slur into each other, and how punctuation affects pronunciation.

[Dukey77777]

ask your hot boss. better yet, take a picture, i'm sure that will give you some clue as to what advanced phonics are

[Tony_Balony]

YBS - TY for the informed input. I had a sense I was missing something.
I had a glimmer of that idea and I can create some exercises but that would send me looking for material soon enough and I can't recall seeing books along that line however .... this approach leads to "accent reduction" programs where there is plenty of material available.

That material is over the head of of my students in away but I can prepare enough downward to be useful.

This manner of instruction is heavy with involvement. You can lead the class with group exercises but the need for individual sessions comes up quickly. Hence the need for busy work.

Further, my client base is Christ happy and science happy so maybe Biblical geneologies aren't a bad idea.

[trubadour]

it maybe advanced phonics but what about some amateur phonetic notation and schooling in the appreciation of? Get them to listen to dialogues or songs other stuff and annotate scripts with symbols you contrive to illustrate the finer points of pronunciation - you can look at any given thing in a number of ways, e.g. with particular emphasis on pronunciation, enuniciation, rhythm or expression of meaning (especially irony - Korean's where i work love irony! mb difficult if your from the US, so they say).

Its really simple stuff so you can engage all students listening and completing worksheets, having them write their results on the wall, for the whole class to experiment with.

All of areas of speech vary with environment, intention and emotion. My stu's often like this kind of work (because its simple, amusing and significant info that only a native speaker will really bother with), but it can be difficult to get them to drop the cool act when it comes to reproduction (other than the ironic thing... though mb they picked that up from me..).

Pair work could be coming up with really ambiguous sentences the meaneing of which could transform according to the stress given/etc. your REALLY beautiful.. add irony = your *really* beautiful, or your..etc

time filling stuff could be things like underline the most important word in a sentence - and then get them to put stress on it..the way we enunciate questions, statements, personal information, dramatic statements..

I think the stuff I recommend won't be over anyone's head because it is so important in the Korean language as well. And its simple. Just remind them of KBS dramas'..

I wonder if that'll help at all?

[trubadour]

yeah and like YBS says slurring... you could do drunk speaking!

[Yu_Bum_suk]