It is meant to be a flexible and effective communication system for Non Native Speakers of English (NNS). We believe that BPA can serve as an aid to teaching consistent English pronunciation to Native Bengali SpeakersĮnglish as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is frequently mentioned in today’s ELT literature. To overcome these problems we designed a Bengali Phonetic Alphabet (BPA) in which we used Bengali characters to represent phonemes common to both English and Bengali, and eight IPA symbols for other English phonemes.
It also does not have the very finely differentiated English vowel sounds like, and and does not differentiate between long and short vowel sounds. The Bengali language does not have the fricative sounds, ,, , and and the approximant. Our aim was to investigate the feasibility and ease of use of such a phonetic alphabet to teach English pronunciation to Native Bengali Speakers by combining this visual tool with existing audio tools and techniques. Thus, we can transcribe an English word into a sequence of symbols, with associated sound characteristics, in the order they are to be used to pronounce the word.
A phonetic alphabet like IPA can be used to represent different speech sounds or segments, along with some of the suprasegmental characteristics like tone, length and stress, each represented by a unique visual symbol.
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