Experience

PHONOLOGY CLASS

Joining phonology class is usual for English students, especially me as an English student but I have to learn this lesson because phonology must be taken in the journey of studying English at state Islamic university of Malang. When I joined phonology class with Mrs. Like as a lecturer, I did not know what I had to learn. I tried to understand what phonology is and it was a good experience for me when I joined phonology class.

In fourth semester, I had to take phonology class. In this class, I got a lesson how to pronounce English well. I studied many things that I did not know before about English phonetics and phonology. It helped me when I learnt English in my campus. I learnt the production of sounds, the Indonesian sound system and English sound system. All this lessons had to learn in phonology class. I was very interesting when I learnt about English word stress. Started from this lesson, I could distinguish how to pronounce a word in different context. It made me easier to speak English clearly and made me so confidence when I attempted to speak English in front of people but there were some problems when I learnt this lessons because Indonesian language was different with English such as the production of sounds. It was so difficult for me to distinguish the production of English vowels because we tended to mix them up and pronounced certain words in the wrong way. So, I had to know the front vowels, the back vowels and the mid central vowels of English vowels.

That is my experience when I joined phonology class. I expect to be a good English speaker when I take phonology class in this semester. Thus, I can speak English like a native speaker and it can help me to reach my dream in getting scholarship study abroad.