Post by Admin on Oct 7, 2019 21:25:37 GMT
Pronunciation is no fun for non-native speakers of English, and is often overlooked by teachers.
We start off looking at the IPA, the most invaluable resource available to teach pronunciation. There are a number of quality exercises at: tesol.boards.net/board/31/teaching-pronunciation
In Japan, it is almost unanimous amongst teachers to use Katakana (http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/katakana) to teach English pronunciation.
I once did a test with a group of 40 junior high school students, each was asked to say 40 words from a card they were meant to learn during the previous semester.
They had never been exposed to the IPA symbols, IPA guided pronunciation, their teacher had never once thought writing Katakana above the English words would create a problem. I estimated that if I was untrained in picking up pronunciation errors, I would have not understood 50% of the words the students were saying.
The teacher of the class quickly asked me to throw my results in the trash and say his class was a fantastic class, with excellent English speakers with magnificent pronunciation skills.
I told him there was nothing wrong with his students, they were capable and intelligent, it was all in the teaching method of using the native language to speak the target language.
1. Go to: soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/main/english
2. Choose three IPA sounds from their respective groups: stop; fricative; affricative; nasal; liquid; glide.
3. Now think about what exercise you may organise to help facilitate the learning of your three chosen sounds, could it be an accuracy or a fluency exercise?
(Accuracy vs Fluency: tesol.boards.net/thread/57/accuracy-fluency)
4. Take the session plan exercise template: bit.ly/30Uyzev - DOWNLOAD it and upload to your own Google Drive please.
5. Fill out the exercise template. Do share with others, work on the exercise together.
Post to our social media accounts:
www.facebook.com/groups/TESOLQA/
m.me/join/AbYovHclwycOpWmg
LINE: line.me/ti/g2/zs0pifGAWBlprVpCz4fTiw
Explain how your accuracy is either an accuracy or fluency exercise, and how it helps with pronunciation.
Check out the pronunciation exercise posted here:
tesol.boards.net/thread/112/pronunciation-session-plan-exercise
We start off looking at the IPA, the most invaluable resource available to teach pronunciation. There are a number of quality exercises at: tesol.boards.net/board/31/teaching-pronunciation
In Japan, it is almost unanimous amongst teachers to use Katakana (http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/katakana) to teach English pronunciation.
I once did a test with a group of 40 junior high school students, each was asked to say 40 words from a card they were meant to learn during the previous semester.
They had never been exposed to the IPA symbols, IPA guided pronunciation, their teacher had never once thought writing Katakana above the English words would create a problem. I estimated that if I was untrained in picking up pronunciation errors, I would have not understood 50% of the words the students were saying.
The teacher of the class quickly asked me to throw my results in the trash and say his class was a fantastic class, with excellent English speakers with magnificent pronunciation skills.
I told him there was nothing wrong with his students, they were capable and intelligent, it was all in the teaching method of using the native language to speak the target language.
1. Go to: soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/main/english
2. Choose three IPA sounds from their respective groups: stop; fricative; affricative; nasal; liquid; glide.
3. Now think about what exercise you may organise to help facilitate the learning of your three chosen sounds, could it be an accuracy or a fluency exercise?
(Accuracy vs Fluency: tesol.boards.net/thread/57/accuracy-fluency)
4. Take the session plan exercise template: bit.ly/30Uyzev - DOWNLOAD it and upload to your own Google Drive please.
5. Fill out the exercise template. Do share with others, work on the exercise together.
Post to our social media accounts:
www.facebook.com/groups/TESOLQA/
m.me/join/AbYovHclwycOpWmg
LINE: line.me/ti/g2/zs0pifGAWBlprVpCz4fTiw
Explain how your accuracy is either an accuracy or fluency exercise, and how it helps with pronunciation.
Check out the pronunciation exercise posted here:
tesol.boards.net/thread/112/pronunciation-session-plan-exercise