Fricatives and Affricates of English vocabulary: A Pedagogical Perspective for Assamese medium Learners of English

Abstract

Vocabulary, whether English or Assamese or of any other language plays a pivotal role to the language concerned. When we consider phonological aspect of vocabulary from the pedagogical perspective intended to basic level learners of English, it includes both the vowels (monopthong +diphthong) and consonantal phonemes. In the present paper we will restrict ourselves only to the problematic consonantal speech sounds (Fricatives and Affricates) of English vocabulary in the pedagogical perspective. We have come across that teaching and learning English and its vocabulary are unsatisfactory in Assamese medium schools especially in rural areas. The present work tries to make an attempt to study the problematic and difficult sounds of English vocabulary especially  fricatives and affricates.