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Articles on teaching pronunciation

Find out more about different features of English pronunciation and ideas about how to teach them.

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

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

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

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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.