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Phonetics is the study of human speech.

Phonemes are the smallest units of sounds in a language.

Phonemic script is a transcription of the sounds of a word or phrase, using phonemic symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

Phonology, also known as phonemics, is the study of the particular sound units (phonemes) in languages.

Explore the phonemic chart and discover teaching tools and activities to help your English language learners improve their pronunciation.

Phonemic symbols are the symbols used to represent individual phonemes in transcription, typically found next to a word in a dictionary.

Hopefully if we start educating learners from a young age they will be more comfortable with phonemic script and see the benefits of it when they are older and more self-aware learners.

Support your pronunciation activities with our A4 size downloadable pronunciation posters – one for each of the 44 symbols.

If you have an interactive whiteboard, or a computer with a data projector, the phonemic chart can be used in class to recycle and reinforce recently learned vocabulary, at the same time as revising the phonemic symbols.

Learning and remembering the phonemic symbols can be quite a challenge. Here are some ideas and activities which can help even lower levels with this.