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Pronunciation Teaching Tools

Pronunciation Teaching Tools. Burgen Young byoung@themlc.org. Pronunciation is a key to communication. But…. Isolated pronunciation exercises are not very effective. And…. Technical explanations of pronunciation are often confusing. A Solution.

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Pronunciation Teaching Tools

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  1. Pronunciation Teaching Tools Burgen Youngbyoung@themlc.org

  2. Pronunciation is a key to communication. But…

  3. Isolated pronunciation exercises are notvery effective. And…

  4. Technical explanations of pronunciation are often confusing.

  5. A Solution

  6. Practice pronunciation as problems occur And…

  7. Avoid pronunciation jargon alveolar ridge dipthong voiceless fricative supersegmental schwa vocal tract

  8. Keep it simple

  9. How?

  10. Pronunciation Tool Number One

  11. familiar Usesymbols

  12. Pronunciation Tool Number Two

  13. I hear . Try to say . how house I hear . Try to say . t-shirt teacher I hear . Try to say . sheep ship

  14. Pronunciation Tool Number Three

  15. Listen, listen some more and then repeat. Just listen. Ruler. Ruler.

  16. Pronunciation Tool Number Four

  17. Break it Down fridge re fridge re fridge er re fridge er ate re fridge er ate or

  18. Pronunciation Tool Number Five

  19. You can say when you say . the s sound at the beginning of a word start • You can say when you say . thev sound very • You can say when you say . ther sound red

  20. Tool Kit • Use familiar symbols • When you say that I hear ____. Try to say ____. • Listen, listen again, and then repeat. • Break it down • You can say that when you say ___.

  21. Pronunciation is morethan sounds. vowels pitch word stress sentencestress consonants thought groups

  22. Intonationis more important for comprehension than individual sounds.

  23. The teaching tools work with intonation too.

  24. What is intonation?

  25. Intonation is… Pitch

  26. Intonation is… Stress

  27. Intonation is… Thought Groups

  28. What is sentence stress?

  29. The important words in a sentence are stressed.

  30. A stressed syllable has a vowel sound that is… louder longer

  31. To identify the number of syllables in a word, count the number of vowel sounds.

  32. To find a stressed syllable, stretch the word and identify the longest vowel sound.

  33. For more information http://online.themlc.org

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