Supplementary materials for the course Reading in English for Young Learners in Malaysia for TELL2 Long and Short Letter Sounds The long sound is like the letter name and may be a long vowel or actually a diphthong ID: 536230
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Slide1
Vowel Phonemes in English and Bahasa Melayu
Supplementary materials for the course:
Reading
in English for Young Learners in
Malaysia
for TELL2Slide2
‘Long’ and ‘Short’ Letter Sounds
The ‘long’ sound is
like the letter name
, and may be a long vowel or actually a diphthong.
The ‘short’ sound is NOT like the letter name.Slide3
English “Long ‘a’ ”, “Short ‘a’ ”
a
nt
/æ/
a
b
a
b
y
t
a
p
e
sn
ai
l
tr
ay
/
eɪ
/
a
a-e
ay
ai
Short ‘a’:
Long ‘a’
diphthong
Sounds like the letter nameSlide4
Bahasa Melayu: ‘a’
a
ar
c
ar
ban
a
na
/ɑ:/
Sounds like the other English letter ‘a’Slide5
English “Long ‘e’ ”, “Short ‘e’ ”
/e/
e
ea
b
e
d
br
ea
d
e
ea
ee
ey
y
/
i
:/
Forget-me-not
m
e
b
ea
ch
tr
ee
k
ey
pon
y
“Long ‘e’ ” sounds like the letter name.
“Short ‘e’ ”Slide6
/e/
e
ea
b
e
d
br
ea
d
English “Short ‘e’ ” is the same as
one of
the BM ‘e’ s.
Bahasa Melayu: ‘e’
There are two phonemes for ‘e’:
the sounds
/
ə/
and
/e/Slide7
e
ea
ee
ey
y
/
i
:/
Forget-me-not
m
e
b
ea
ch
tr
ee
k
ey
pon
y
English “Long ‘e’ ” is the same as the BM ‘i’
Bahasa Melayu: ‘i’Slide8
/ı/
i
e
t
i
n
rock
e
t
i
i
-e
igh
y
/
ɑı
/
t
i
ger
k
i
t
e
l
igh
t
fl
y
English “Long ‘i’ ”, “Short ‘i’ ”
Long ‘i’:
diphthong
Sounds like the letter name
Short ‘i’:Slide9
/
ɒ
/
o
wa
fr
o
g
s
wa
n
o
o-e
ow
ew
/
əʊ
/
oa
g
o
b
oa
t
n
o
t
e
sn
ow
s
ew
English “Long ‘o’ ”, “Short ‘o’ ”
Long ‘o’:
diphthong
Sounds like the letter name
Short ‘o’:Slide10
Bahasa Melayu: ‘o’
Sounds like English “Short ‘o’ ”
/
ɒ
/
o
wa
fr
o
g
s
wa
nSlide11
oo
ew
ue
/
u
:
/
m
oo
n
scr
ew
gl
ue
u
/
ʌ/
o
b
u
s
gl
o
ve
English “Long ‘u’ ”, “Short ‘u’ ”
Long ‘u’:
diphthong
Sounds like the letter name
Short ‘u’:Slide12
Bahasa Melayu: ‘u’
oo
/
ʊ/
u
b
oo
k
b
u
ll
In English, it’s another kind of “Short ‘u’ ”.Slide13
another English Vowel Sound
or
au
aw
oor
/
ɔ:/
a
f
or
k
b
a
ll
s
au
ce
s
aw
d
oor
It’s like a lengthened “Short ‘o’ ”Slide14
(other) English Diphthongs (1)
/
eə
/
air
are
h
air
squ
are
ear
eer
ear
d
eer
/
ɪə
/
/
ʊə
/
oor
m
oor
our
t
our
ist
ure
c
ure
ur
j
ur
ySlide15
/
ɑʊ
/
ow
ou
c
ow
h
ou
se
/
ɔı
/
oy
oi
t
oy
c
oi
n
(other) English Diphthongs (2)Slide16
er
ir
or
ur
/
ɜ:/
f
er
n
sh
ir
t
w
or
m
f
ur
The Long ‘
er
’
This is similar to the second ‘e’ phoneme in BM.
In English it is found in
stressed syllables
and words with
one
syllable
.Slide17
The Schwa
/
ə/
er
ar
or
ure
teach
er
coll
ar
doct
or
meas
ure
a
e
i
o
u
zebr
a
gard
e
n
foss
i
l
li
o
n
circ
u
s
In an
unstressed
syllable the vowel sound is often replaced by ‘schwa’. It is
shorter
than the similar BM sound.