islamization of phonetics and phonology part 3

السلام عليكم

WHY CORRECT PRONUNCIATION IS CRUCIAL?

            As mentioned earlier, phonetics and phonology are one of the branches of linguistics. Both of them deal with sounds as phonetics and phonology are described as the study of sounds. Phonetics is stressed with how sounds are produced, transmitted and perceived or to make it simple, it is about the production of sounds whilst phonology is all about sound systems of language. In order to know more about it, the learners themselves have to know what is place of articulation and manner of articulation in phonetics and phonology first before applying those concepts in our daily life. Thus, phonetics and phonology has become one of the crucial elements for the learner to master in any language. As phonetics and phonology are all about sounds, so they are actually related to the pronunciation. So the question is why correct pronunciation is very important to us?

            As we all know, by having correct pronunciation in speaking, it actually does give us so much advantages. The reason why we said so is because, it helps us to avoid in any misunderstanding between the speaker and listener. By this it means the listener or the receiver can easily interpret the message that have given or said by the speaker or sayer. Not only for that, it apparently can cause the communication become smooth and maybe the conversation will become long. Thus, it shows that when the speaker can pronounce well, it can avoid misunderstanding between two parties occur. This is because different way of production of sounds would probably get different meaning and it may lead to misunderstanding. Hence, to reflect this with Islamic perspective point of view, we know that in Islam, we are taught to avoid misunderstanding in any aspect of life. So if something wrong somewhere we have to make it as clear as crystal in order to prevent from negative thing happen.

            Next, another importance of correct pronunciation is it can aid in increasing individual’s level of self esteem. By this it means, it can help people to have a confident when speaking. Although we are not born as an English native speaker, it does not mean we can’t speak English well. As long as we can pronounce the words correctly and others can understand it, so can use the language in our life. We have to be confident and practice it in order to achieve better communication skill. As for islamization of this point, as a Muslim we have to have guts in order to be successful person. So, when we have confident in speaking we can do some dawah activities and from the power of words, we actually can convince people.

           Last but not least, islamization of phonetics and phonology can be seen in terms of to ponder the beauty of Allah's creation. we know that when we learn phonetics and phonology we are exposed with place of articulation and manner of articulation. From these, we are able to know how the sounds were produced and how the organs work. Indirectly, we could see how wonderful Allah's creations are so as a Muslim we have to take care of all these because they are belong to Allah.