The Phonetic Alphabets
Yim-on (2002) mentions that not knowing phonetic alphabet can be a problem for
EFL learners because knowing phonetic alphabet will be beneficial to know how to
pronounce each word correctly. The phonetic alphabet is a writing system in which each
letter corresponds to a particular sound in language. A word that is written in the phonetic
alphabet will always be pronounced exactly the way that it is written, since the same sound
is always represented by the same letter. She also states that the phonetic alphabet consists
of the letters of the Latin alphabet plus a number of special letters and symbols.