Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English.pdf

Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English Marla Tritch Yoshida β ...

Goals Teaching pronunciation can be a challenge. It requires some technical knowledge about phonology, an ability to predict the ...

everyday life. But native speakers also need the same types of information and can bene!t from an introduction to the system beh ...

Language) and TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) programs at the University of California, Irvine Extension. I’ve tau ...

Using the Book on Your iPad Some features won’t work well in portrait mode on your iPad, and some of the boxes and recordings mi ...

CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Teaching Pronunciation Why do we need to teach pronunciation? There are many things that English teach ...

speaker is like throwing a ball at a moving target—di#cult, frustrating, and hard to hit! Another problem is that very few learn ...

important. The two don’t always go together. For example, many students learn to produce a new sound correctly when they’re conc ...

It seems more practical, however, to realize that no single aspect of pronunciation can stand on its own. Our students can bene! ...

They want to be accepted into a group that uses the language. The group might still recognize the learners as “outsiders,” but ...

impossible to de!ne or measure. What seems like a natural talent may be partly due to special motivation, encouragement from par ...

their L1 or that are used in a di"erent way. This in$uence is called native language interference or language transfer. What hap ...

Familiarity with the borrowed word can make it harder for learners to pronounce the word correctly in English if they assume tha ...

pronunciation. It won’t happen easily, and it won’t happen at all if the student doesn’t work at it. We need to provide informat ...

or understand them—we’re still hearing through the !lter of our L1. To pronounce a new language well, we need to learn to hear a ...

they may not foresee a need to speak English in their future lives. If pronunciation isn’t tested and doesn’t count for part of ...

and how word stress, rhythm, connected speech, and intonation work. You need to understand and predict the kinds of problems yo ...

CHAPTER 2 Some Very Basic Concepts of Phonology Phonology Phonology is the study of speech sounds in language—the sounds themsel ...

to someone talk, we don’t usually notice all these di"erences. We don’t realize that we’re really hearing many di"erent variatio ...

To illustrate how phonemes and allophones work, let’s compare sounds to colors. If you look at the boxes below, you’ll probably ...