Cardinal Vowels One of the traditional parts of practical phonetics training is learning to produce and transcribe Cardinal Vowels (Knight et al., 2014). Cardinal Vowels are a primarily perceptual classification system for vowels and are typically introduced after students are familiar with the articulatory classification of vowels. CVs do not occur in ‘real’ languages but…Continue Reading Scary Phonetics? Learning Cardinal Vowels, Part 1
Class tests: moving from in-class to online
In 2015, after reviewing the assessment requirements for undergraduate students on my second year module in English phonetics and phonology, I decided to change my practice. Up until then there had been two elements: 1) a broad phonetic transcription from dictation; and 2) a written exam in the exams period in which students chose two…Continue Reading Class tests: moving from in-class to online
Assessing phonetics production skills remotely
Like everyone else in Higher Education, I had to adapt my teaching and assessment for remote delivery at the start of the pandemic. This included having to find a way to assess phonetic production skills online. Traditionally production skills are assessed by an oral exam. These oral exams vary, of course, by institution and by…Continue Reading Assessing phonetics production skills remotely