Why do we need to work with pronunciation?

- Help Ss understand spoken speech

- Make their own speech understandable / intelligible / comprehensible
What’s a particular problem in English between the form and the pronunciation of a
word?
How many different elements are included in the term “pronunciation”? What are they?
Individual sounds
Word stress
Sounds in connected speech
Rhythm and stress in utterances
intonation
Should you focus on pronunciation by itself or integrate it into other skills or language
taught?
Integrate (esp lesson practicing skills of listening and speaking), sometimes it can be
taught in a separated lesson
What techniques can you use when encouraging students to practise pronunciation
elements?
What techniques can you use to raise awareness of pronunciation mistakes?
Practise different ways of showing stress in a word and be prepared to demonstrate
one. Do the same to show intonation.
Overstressing
Gesture (clicking fingers, clapping the word, moving the hand)
Making marks on the board (capitalization, underlining, stress marks, boxes)
Is sentence stress always the same? What does it depend on?
No, depends on the intention of speaker (what he/she wants to convey or emphasize)