The importance of Phonetics in English teaching

The world during all its History has made use of certain languages as a mean of communication between people of all countries and cultures. Living nowadays in a world were information travels almost at the speed of light, everybody is directly affected by occurrences all around the globe, therefore there is a great need of a language to serve as link between the nations. Just like Latin was the language meant to gather people as …

…teach the students how to articulate these "foreign" sounds using repetition exercises of conflictive sounds and listening which should help students to identify the pronounce problem and correct it. They must also be ready to teach the students about the transfer process, where the same sound can be used in both languages without much troubles in meaning, to help them understand that not all the sounds in English are necessarily different form their own language.