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Laughing All the Way: Teaching English Using Puns

       In English it has many techniques for teaching in class. Which, techniques are important for teaching in each class because it will motivate students for learning. Therefore, Teacher should be choosing technique that is interest into class such as teaching English by using puns.

       In the article” Teaching English Using Puns” it about some technique that is teaching English by using puns. Teaching English by using puns that is using joke in each class. Which using puns or joke into class it can help students feel more comfortable in their new language. Since, jokes based on word played have additional benefits because they build metalinguistic awareness. In this article it has four categories of English puns that are sound alike puns, lookalike puns, close-sounding puns, and texting puns. The first, sound alike puns are based on homophones which words that sound the same but have different spelling and meaning. The second, lookalike puns that is word that spell and pronounced the same. The third, close-sounding puns it comes from the confusion generated by similar sounding word. And the last one, texting puns  these are based on the increasingly common practice of using the sound or spelling of alphabet letter. Which, using puns in class it helped student understand content and it motivate them while learning. Moreover, it can help students feel more comfortable in their new language.

    Teaching will be complete and succeed when teacher has many  technique for teach and student understand the lesson.