Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English.pdf

symbols. Some people have a more analytical mindset than others, and learning to use phonemic symbols will feel natural and comf ...

sound or that sound?” Phonemic symbols give us a way to check our hearing. Should you use phonemic symbols or not? You’ll have t ...

CHAPTER 17 How Can I Improve My Own Pronunciation? Why? If English is not your native language, you know that your pronunciation ...

Learn to listen. Of course you might say, “I already know how to listen. I do it all the time.” But to improve your pronunciatio ...

to hear di"erences that you didn’t notice before, and your pronunciation will become more like that of your model. Listen extens ...

experiment with how to adjust your pronunciation to make it sound better. Play the recording for someone else and ask for their ...

technique and it just doesn’t work for you, even after giving it a fair chance for a couple of weeks, just don’t do it. You’ll a ...

Reference List Alphabetical list of references Abello-Contesse, C. (2009). Age and the Critical Period Hypothesis, ELT Journal V ...

Dalton, C. & Seidlhofer, B. (1994) Pronunciation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Derwing, T. M. (2010). Utopian goals for ...

Medgyes, P. (2001). When the Teacher is a Non-Native Speaker. In Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, Third Edition ...

Wong, R. (1987). Teaching Pronunciation: Focus on English Rhythm and Intonation. Englewood Cli"s, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Und ...

a CD with examples from the book. Based on British English pronunciation. Pronunciation, Clement Laroy, Oxford University Press ...

interesting approach, though it may not be easily accepted by most teachers, Boards of Education, parents, etc. Not based on eit ...

Books about phonetics and phonology These are more theoretical books about phonology in general and the sounds of many languages ...

Accentedness This describes listeners’ judgment of whether a speaker’s pronunciation !ts into the norms of standard pronunciatio ...

Accuracy Correctness in pronunciation. The degree to which someone’s pronunciation matches an accepted norm. Related Glossary Te ...

Affricate A type of sound that is a combination of a stop followed by a fricative—an explosion with a slow release. The a"ricate ...

Allophones Variations of a phoneme that are still heard to be the same sound are called allophones of the same phoneme. They’re ...

Alphabetic Principle The understanding that written words are composed of letters, and the letters represent the sounds of spoke ...

Alveolar A place of articulation that describes sounds pronounced with the tip of the tongue touching or almost touching the alv ...