Teaching Pronunciation

How to Teach Pronunciation for EFL Teachers

Do you avoid teaching pronunciation because you are not sure how to teach it?

Do you avoid teaching pronunciation because you don’t have  the materials to teach it?

Do you avoid teaching pronunciation because it seems too difficult?

If the answer to any of these questions was yes – then you have come to the right place.

The basics of teaching pronunciation are fairly easy. All you need is a large list of words, phrases, or sentences that contain specific target sounds and have the students complete various exercises or drills that focus on producing or listening for that sound. EASY!

Of course the problem is FINDING that long list of words, phrases, and sentences.

You could spend hours and hours on the Internet going from one site to another looking for  words and phrases that contain the target sound.  (Good luck with that)

You could spend days and days flipping through a dictionary looking for words that have the specific target sounds you need.

You could wrack your brain trying to think of a list of words that contain the target sound and then spend even more time double checking in a dictionary to make sure that the sound you think is in the word is actually there.

But why would you do that if you don’t have to?

A Guide To Teaching English Pronunciation gives you everything you need to easily and systematically add the teaching of pronunciation to you list of teaching skills.

The book contains exercises and drills for:

• all vowel sounds
• all consonant sounds
• linking of sounds
• ending sounds
• contractions
• rhythm
• syllables
• intonation
• reductions
• consonant clusters
• sound changes

But what kind of exercises and drills, you might ask?

There are several kinds of exercises in the book. Each exercise has between 20 to 25 items containing two or three words in a group. The words in the group may or may not contain the target sound. The teacher reads the words to the students and they must decide (by marking on an answer sheet):

1. If two words have the same target sounds or not
2. Which of three words does not contain the target sound
3. Which syllable in the word the target sound is in for individual words
4. If two words are the same or different
5. Which target sound an individual word contains (for example b or p)
6. Fill in the blanks on an answer sheet from  a sentences read by the teacher
7. Speaking practice exercises in which students make their own sentences using example phrases that contain the target sounds

The drills consist of short sentences and phrases that the teacher reads and the students repeat to practice producing and listening for the target sounds. There are drills for:

• individual vowels and consonants
• flaps
• glottal stops
• contractions
• reductions
• ending sounds
• ellipsis
• syllable stress
• linking of sounds
• intonation patterns

In addition to the drills and exercises there are also answer sheets that can be copied and handed out to students for each exercise. Over 172 pages of helpfulness . . .

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