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In order to present confidently to impress potential employers or enhance mobility, it is important to improve students' pronunciation, especially those with low oral proficiency level. The primary step to counter this matter is finding out students' problems in their pronunciation.
•To heighten your awareness of what’s important for you and your students to focus on in order to help them speak more clearly. •To help you understand a key component of spoken English– STRESS. •To look at some techniques and activities you can use in a variety of settings and classes.
Spelling & Sound: how to turn written English into speech. Structure: how English joins together and the weak/strong structure. Intonation: the use of pitch and stress in speech. Most activities come with audio files to practise with.
speaking and believe their pronunciation of the sounds of English is an obstacle to effective communication. However, in the case of spoken English, there are two important things to bear in mind: You do not need native-like pronunciation of English sounds in order to be comfortably understood
and listen to English asmuch as you can, along the lines that I shall suggest to you, then youwill find that the instructions given in the following pages will makeyour ears sharper for the sound of English and when you can hearEnglish properly you can go on and improve your performance. Language starts with the ear.
What is pronunciation? Key issues in pronunciation teaching and learning. Activities. 1 Developing awareness of English pronunciation. 1.1 Introducing features of pronunciation. 1.2 Getting you thinking: a pronunciation questionnaire. 1.3 Making vowel sounds. 1.4 Consonant clusters: English and first language differences.
• Features of pronunciation • Resources and activities to practice pronunciation • Exam preparation resources. Overview
