Ayo Osisanwo
Ayo Osisanwo, a lecturer in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria (2013 to date), holds a PhD in English from the same Department. He was a lecturer in the Department of English, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo (2007 - 2013). His papers have appeared in international journals, including Discourse and Society, Discourse and Communication, Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communication, World Journal of English Language, Papers in English Linguistics, Journal of Arts and Design Studies, Journal of Linguistic Association of Nigeria, Working Papers: Journal of English Studies, Research in English and Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Languages and African Development, Journal of Contemporary Humanities, Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, among others. He has also authored some books in Phonology and contributed to other edited books. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Programme (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), New York, USA, and an AHP-ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow alumnus at the School of Journalism, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South-Africa.
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Professor Albert 'Lekan Oyeleye
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The learning of the sounds of English affords the ESL (English as Second Language) learners the opportunity to become aware of how to pronounce words as correctly as possible, or to pronounce words to near perfection. Hence for the ESL users of English to pronounce words as correctly as the native speaker would, or at least to conform to the level of international intelligibility, they must be familiar with the available speech sounds and how each of them is articulated (Osisanwo, 2009) by the human articulators or organs of speech.
Meaning is what is meant by a word, action, idea and so forth; and it is the message derived from an utterance in a communicative situation. In this unit, we will provide answers to the foregoing question and examine the different types of meaning, including denotative meaning and connotative meaning, and examine the different types of lexical relations, including synonymy, antonymy, homonymy, polysemy, homophony and meronymy. Finally on spelling, we believe that spelling has to do with the order in which letters are used to represent words. Spelling in English is an area that often creates problem for students, especially since many words in English are not written or realised as they are pronounced. Hence, what do learners and users of English need to do in order to spell English words correctly? Answers are provided in this unit.