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MET5 Objectives Trainees
MET5 Objectives Trainees
The list below will help you follow up on your achievement. Please put a check () in the box that in your opinion shows your
progress in this course. Make sure you demonstrate you can do the following when finishing the respective chapter.
Self-
Progress
Chapter Teaching Performance Objectives Ranking
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To discuss pronunciation ideas (modeling new words in context, modeling intonation, recognizing
the feeling, using dialogs, chants, shadow reading, voice settings)
To discuss which pronunciation variety to teach (Received pronunciation, General American
English, others)
To discuss ‘starting points for pronunciation’
To review concepts regarding ‘phonemes’ (consonant sounds, vowel sounds, phonemic charts,
the sound of English
diphthongs)
To plan and use activities to work on ‘phoneme(s)’
Phonology:
To review concepts regarding ‘word-stress’ (stress marking, stressed syllables, stress patterns)
13 To plan and use activities to work on ‘word-stress’
To review concepts regarding ‘prominence’ (sentence stress, tone units, tonic syllables,
secondary stresses, effects of changing sentence stress, stress and meaning)
To plan and use activities to work on ‘prominence’
To review concepts regarding ‘connected speech’ (weak forms, rhythm, the use of the schwa,
stress and unstress, transcribing pronunciation, citation forms, elision, assimilation, linking)
To plan and use activities to work on ‘connected speech’
To review concepts regarding ‘intonation’ (intonation patterns: rise, fall, rise-fall, fall-rise)
To plan and use activities to work on ‘intonation’
Ultimate goal for the unit : To teach major pronunciation features effectively