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Articles on pronunciation Find out more about rhythm, word stress, connected speech and much more in the articles below. |
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Integrating pronunciation into classroom activitiesPronunciation work has traditionally taken a secondary role in language teaching to work on grammar and more recently lexis. |
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Global English and the teaching of pronunciationThe emergence of so many different kinds (or 'varieties') of international English has caused a number of linguists to question the use of native speaker pronunciation models in the teaching of English. |
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Core activities for using the chart to integrate pronunciationI often see the Sound Foundations chart (you can see it below) in classrooms, and teachers using it to bring pronunciation into the central arena of language work. |
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Pronunciation - the poor relation?The point I want to make is that pronunciation teaching has been neglected and that we have all lost out through this. |
Teaching the schwaIf you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa. |
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RhythmRhythm is both a feature of and product of the phonological structure of English. The phonology of any language is a system, so that a change in one part of the system will affect some or all of the other parts. |
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Developing pronunciation through songsLike us, you might already use songs in class, and find that your students enjoy them. But have you considered choosing songs specifically to work on pronunciation? |
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IntonationIntonation is crucial for communication. It's also a largely unconscious mechanism, and as such, a complex aspect of pronunciation. |
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Teaching pronunciation with phonemic symbolsPhonemic symbols represent the sounds of the English language. Using them can be a valuable tool to improving your students' pronunciation. |
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Teaching the schwaIf you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa. |
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Word stressA major benefit of focusing students on how words are stressed is the extra mental engagement with the word that it gives. |
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Young learners and the phonemic chartThe main aim of this article is for teachers to help their students become more knowledgeable and interested in learning the sounds of English and to help them see how it can facilitate autonomous learning with self-study |
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Teaching the schwaIf you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa. |
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Pronunciation - the poor relation?The point I want to make is that pronunciation teaching has been neglected and that we have all lost out through this. |
Connected speechTeaching pronunciation used to involve little more than identifying and practising the sounds of which a language is composed, that is to say, its phonemes. |
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Developing pronunciation through songsLike us, you might already use songs in class, and find that your students enjoy them. But have you considered choosing songs specifically to work on pronunciation? |
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