On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Peter Jacobi
<peter_jacobi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
You forget an important point. enWP has many
readers and contributors with English as second language. They usually use IPA as
reference how English is pronounced and have been taught English this way. So effectively
IPA is more native to them than all these ugly English pronunciation guides.
Regards,
Peter
I honestly find that hard to believe; nothing I've seen written about
IPA on this list, or on the [[IPA]] article, suggests that it is
widely used for any purpose outside academic linguistics.
Oops, if the world
contradicts the list and a WP article, the world is
out of step?
Anyway, not much googling on TEFL and IPA needed to find this quote:
"Pronunciation guidance is a major feature of leading EFL dictionaries
such as the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD) and the Longman
Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), which are regularly revised
and updated. These and authoritative pronunciation-only dictionaries
such as Wells (2000) make use of IPA symbols to indicate pronunciation."
Charles