Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English.pdf

Alveolar ridge The rough area just behind the top teeth. It can also be called the tooth ridge or the gum ridge Related Glossary ...

Articulation The way of pronouncing sounds; how we move our tongue, lips, etc. in pronouncing sounds. Related Glossary Terms Ind ...

Articulators The parts of the vocal tract that move in various ways to change the size and shape of the open part of the vocal t ...

Articulatory system The parts of the body that are used in producing sounds. Its parts are illustrated below: Related Glossary T ...

Aspiration (noun) Aspirated (adjective) The pu" of air that is produced with some sounds. In English, voiceless stops are aspira ...

Assimilation A sound change in which one sound becomes more similar to a sound that comes before or after it. This makes the wor ...

Auditory learning modality Learning through hearing. Related Glossary Terms Index Section 7 - Teaching Consonants and Vowels Sec ...

Authentic materials Materials that were created for “real life” purposes, not for teaching, such as newspapers, magazines, TV or ...

Bilabial A place of articulation that describes sounds pronounced with the lips touching or almost touching each other. Related ...

Blends and contractions Two words that blend together to make a shorter word. If the two-word combination is written as one word ...

Bottom-up processing When we listen to individual sounds to !gure out what words we’re hearing and decode the meaning of the mes ...

Chants A set of rhythmic lines that are repeated over and over again, such as Jazz Chants, made popular by Carolyn Graham. A cha ...

Choral repetition Pronunciation practice in which a group of students repeat after a model, all speaking together. The tradition ...

Citation form of a word The pronunciation of a word when it is said carefully, and usually alone. For example, the citation form ...

Closed syllable A syllable that ends in a consonant sound, like sun, bat, made, or the last syllable in return. Related Glossary ...

Cloze listening A practice activity or test in which learners are asked to !ll in missing words in a written text. For example, ...

Communicability This describes how well a speaker’s pronunciation lets him/her function and communicate in the real-life situati ...

Communicative language teaching An approach to language teaching that emphasizes these principles: Students learn a language be ...

Complementary distribution When we don’t have a choice of which allophone of a phoneme to use in a particular situation, we say ...

Compound nouns Combinations of two words that together make a new noun, such as newspaper, motorcycle, or post office. Related G ...