ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the articulation of English speech sounds and basic transcription. Pronunciation teaching and learning necessitates knowledge about the production of speech sounds and the field of study that focuses on describing how speech sounds are produced is known as phonetics. The important consideration in the production of speech sounds is to determine two things: the organ where the air used to the produce the sounds originates, also known as the initiator, and the direction of the airflow. In terms of the direction of the airflow, the sounds can either be produced while breathing out, in which case the airflow direction is ingressive, or produced while breathing in, in which case the direction of the airflow is known as ingressive. The chapter makes a good understanding of the articulatory principles of sounds also allows us to correct learners who have not produced the right targets and help instructors to facilitate their learners in achieving the articulation target desired.
