Comments on: Phonemic Text – Text http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/2004/03/09/phonemic-text-text/ This website explores the use of javaScript to add interactivity to language learning materials. The main advantage of javascript is that it can be used to add a lot of interactivity yet web pages are still relatively small and fast to load. In addition no plug-ins need to be downloaded and installed. Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:57:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: anna http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/2004/03/09/phonemic-text-text/comment-page-1/#comment-22 anna Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:29:36 +0000 http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/?p=10#comment-22 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 Works fine on my browser. Just some comments on content: 1) I thought perhaps you should mention that the transcriptions are for the regional accent used mainly in the south of England (RP), so that learners from the US or studying US English won't get frustrated. For example, I noticed that rhotic forms aren't accepted, "passport" only accepted the a: and not the usual US pronunciation, etc. Hard to cater to all varieties of English...so the variety you have chosen should be mentioned in the instructions for the activity. 2) Check your phonetic transcription of "though", you have the unvoiced "th" when it should be voiced (even in RP, I believe). Other than that, haven't found anything else - it's very good! Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01

Works fine on my browser. Just some comments on content:

1) I thought perhaps you should mention that the transcriptions are for the regional accent used mainly in the south of England (RP), so that learners from the US or studying US English won’t get frustrated. For example, I noticed that rhotic forms aren’t accepted, “passport” only accepted the a: and not the usual US pronunciation, etc. Hard to cater to all varieties of English…so the variety you have chosen should be mentioned in the instructions for the activity.

2) Check your phonetic transcription of “though”, you have the unvoiced “th” when it should be voiced (even in RP, I believe).

Other than that, haven’t found anything else – it’s very good!

]]> By: Glenys Hanson http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/2004/03/09/phonemic-text-text/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Glenys Hanson Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:30:06 +0000 http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/?p=10#comment-21 Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) It's just great but... The phonetic symbols don't show up on IE though I'm told my score is 100%. To be more precise, for "rough" the /r/ and /f/ are OK but the middle symbol is replaced by a rectangle. Works just fine on Mozilla. Hope this helps. Glenys Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
It’s just great but…
The phonetic symbols don’t show up on IE though I’m told my score is 100%. To be more precise, for “rough” the /r/ and /f/ are OK but the middle symbol is replaced by a rectangle.
Works just fine on Mozilla.
Hope this helps.
Glenys

]]> By: Pete http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/2004/03/09/phonemic-text-text/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Pete Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:06:48 +0000 http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/?p=10#comment-20 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 This is a test to make sure that all the links are working OK. Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

This is a test to make sure that all the links are working OK.

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