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    Teaching pronunciation

    This article was written by Shweta Otiv who teaches ESOL and Functional Skills (English) at City and Islington College in North London and is a lead tutor for the college’s Centre for Lifelong Learning.  She speaks five languages, including her parents’ mother tongue, Marathi, with a degree in French Studies and a Masters in Arts Management.

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    It’s all about the accent!

    Photo: Watching their Ps and Qs: Intermediate ESOL students at City and Islington College

    The two most frequent reasons learners give for wanting to improve their pronunciation are to be taken seriously at work and to be better understood.  These learners are well-educated in their own countries but feel their English accents alone are holding them back.  In this article, Shweta Otiv looks at some activities to help learners improve their pronunciation.

     

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    Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities

    Pronunciation needs constant attention for it to have a lasting effect on students, which means integrating it into daily classroom procedures.

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    Intonation

    Intonation is crucial for communication but many teachers don't feel confident about tackling it in the classroom.

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    Sentence stress

    Sentence stress is a difficult area to work on for learners and teachers alike. For this reason it's also an area which is often neglected, but this aspect of the language can cause problems for learners in both their speaking and perhaps more importantly listening.

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    Connected speech 2

    What is it that native speakers do when stringing words together that causes so many problems for students?

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    Developing pronunciation through songs

    Incorrectly pronounced sounds strain communication, sometimes even changing a phrase's meaning. Songs can help to remedy students' problems with this.

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    Sentence stress

    Sentence stress is a difficult area to work on for learners and teachers alike. For this reason it's also an area which is often neglected, but this aspect of the language can cause problems for learners in both their speaking and perhaps more importantly listening.

  • 2
    Intonation

    Intonation is crucial for communication but many teachers don't feel confident about tackling it in the classroom.

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    Teaching pronunciation

    This article was written by Shweta Otiv who teaches ESOL and Functional Skills (English) at City and Islington College in North London and is a lead tutor for the college’s Centre for Lifelong Learning.  She speaks five languages, including her parents’ mother tongue, Marathi, with a degree in French Studies and a Masters in Arts Management.

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    Connected speech 1

    When students see a spoken sentence in its written form, they have no trouble comprehending. Why is this?

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    Connected speech 2

    What is it that native speakers do when stringing words together that causes so many problems for students?

  • 2
    Developing pronunciation through songs

    Incorrectly pronounced sounds strain communication, sometimes even changing a phrase's meaning. Songs can help to remedy students' problems with this.

  • 1
    Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities

    Pronunciation needs constant attention for it to have a lasting effect on students, which means integrating it into daily classroom procedures.

  • 2
    Intonation

    Intonation is crucial for communication but many teachers don't feel confident about tackling it in the classroom.

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Connected speech 1

Connected speech 2

Developing pronunciation through songs

Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities

Intonation

It’s all about the accent!

Sentence stress

Teaching pronunciation

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