海外英语（上）
海外英語（上）
해외영어（상）
Overseas English
2014年
5期
33-34
,共2页
IPA cardinal vowel system%Daniel Jones%pronunciation%English teaching
The paper introduces the cardinal vowels system invented by the famous English phonetician Daniel Jones. This sys-tem enables a teacher to describe to his students a foreign vowel by comparing it with the nearest vowel in his mother tongue, which makes the learning of a foreign sound much easier to his students. Two cases of teaching Chinese students English vowels are taken as an example to illustrate the point. IPA cardinal vowel system is of use in terms of teaching and learning English. Two suggestions are put forward in the end.
