Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English.pdf

In the same way, within a sentence, words that have more stress or emphasis will last longer than words that are unstressed. For ...

Vowels in unstressed syllables We learned in Chapter 2 that words can be divided into syllables—rhythmic units of sound that eac ...

two ways—as a citation form or as a reduced form. The citation form is the way we pronounce the word when we’re saying it very c ...

and /æ/ or /ʌ/ and /ɑ/, may also be heard as variations of the same sound in some languages. Glided vowels: English vowels that ...

CHAPTER 6 Pronunciation of Some Word Endings Word endings In English, some grammatical word endings are pronounced in more than ...

The !rst form of the ending is listed above as “/əd/ or /ɪd/.” This is because the exact vowel of the ending might vary a little ...

6.2 PRONUNCIATION OF 6.2 PRONUNCIATION OF 6.2 PRONUNCIATION OF -S-S-S ENDINGS ENDINGS ENDINGS If the word ends in one of these s ...

It’s sometimes hard to hear the di"erence between the voiced and voiceless endings /z/ and /s/ or /d/ and /t/. This is because v ...

of a noun followed by -ed. Most of these are also pronounced with an extra syllable /əd/ or /ɪd/. a crooked line a naked man rag ...

CHAPTER 7 Teaching Consonants and Vowels In this chapter In this chapter we’re going to look at some ways to introduce and pract ...

Description and Analysis — oral and written illustrations of how the feature is produced and when it occurs within spoken discou ...

Explanations: Tell students how to produce the sound, using clear, simple, concrete descriptions. Where does the tongue touch? W ...

!ngers curled up could represent /r/, to mimic the movement of the tongue. Some teachers create whole sets of gestures for the t ...

When explaining or demonstrating a sound, give students many chances to practice during your explanation. They need to try out ...

either in writing or verbally. Students read or listen to the words, decide which sound they represent, and write the words in t ...

mind the time it takes for students to hear, process, and write the missing words. Don’t put the blanks too close together; give ...

American football coach, Vince Lombardi, once said, “Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.” While ...

students repeat after the model and then practice the dialog with a partner. Even when doing controlled practice, encourage lear ...

People charts: Create a family tree, sports team roster, or organizational chart of workers in an o#ce that includes names or ot ...

can only say words in isolation but not in real speaking, their skill is not very useful. Many learners can say a sound perfectl ...