Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English.pdf

Ask them to think about thought groups—do the breaks in the melody match the places where we would expect to !nd thought group b ...

that works best with the melody and rhythm of the song. In particular, songs are not good for teaching intonation. Songs have th ...

can record additional comments about pronunciation or simply respond to the ideas the students have expressed. Screenshot of Vox ...

GoAnimate (http://goanimate.com/) is a website that lets you create simple animation, adding your own narration or typing text t ...

Just the thing you’re practicing now, whether it’s a particular sound or a suprasegmental feature Things that are easiest to !x ...

CHAPTER 14 Different Places, Different Learners One size does not fit all Teaching is not like buying a pair of socks. One size ...

level, and goals. What works with one group might not work as well with another. To meet the needs of all the students you might ...

good to get to know your students’ feelings about these before you get in too deep. With any of these activities, however, be su ...

To some extent, teaching pronunciation in a monolingual class, in which all the students share the same native language, is simp ...

How can you !nd a place for pronunciation along with all the other things you have to teach? (This will be discussed in the next ...

Review the pronunciation of some new words by having students say the words in chorus and identify the stressed syllable. Use $ ...

Make sure students hear the word in the context of whole sentences, not only by itself. Give them chances to get used to hearin ...

Read the text to the class (or play a recording, if one is available) before you ask students to read aloud. Give them a good m ...

they practice. It’s important to emphasize suprasegmentals too, especially pausing in appropriate places, emphasizing key words, ...

dictations to check students’ comprehension of individual sounds, words, and reduced forms. When teaching grammar: Keep the pron ...

Choral repetition: When you have students repeat after a model, do it in di"erent ways—sometimes with the whole class repeating ...

pronunciation. If they’re old enough to need to do things on their own, they’ve probably had the experience of being misundersto ...

Providing a pronunciation model Choose the variety of English you’ll use as a model Many varieties of English are spoken in the ...

give students plenty of opportunities to listen to natural- sounding English, including normal connected speech. You’re not help ...

pictures, or simple explanations, then there’s no need for technical language. If the students are adults, though, the situation ...