REFLECTION ON TONGUE TWISTER

When most people think of tongue twister a childhood image comes to my mind: Attempting to recite a tricky rhyme or phrase as fast as possible without tripping over the verbal challenges and hurdles lurking within these tongue-tying sentences. A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value. 

This is one of the interesting topics in this subject. It challenges our tongues subtlety to mention the words which mostly have the same sounds. For this activity, our group got a tongue twister that mostly builds up by letter “w”. The second one is shorter than the first one. Below are our tongue twisters.

             While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows           with warm washing water.

Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

From this activity, I realized that good phonologies were depend on how we pronouns the words. Our pronunciation is the first and most important thing native speakers notice during a conversation. Knowing grammar and vocabulary are important but useless if we are unable to pronoun those structures or words correctly. Therefore, tongue twister is one of creative exercise to train us pronouns correctly.

The conclusion is, to teach pupils about the correct pronunciation, we have to master it first. Tongue twister helps the child to get better at articulating words quickly and clearly. Tongue twisters should be done repeatedly and as quickly as possible without mistakes. fun and help improve a child’s language awareness and pronunciation skills.