How to teach pronunciation /
Gerald Kelly
- Malasia Pearson Education 2000
- 154 p.
THE DESCRIPTION OF SPEECH. What are the main features of pronunciation?. The physiology of pronunciation. The articulation of phonemes. TEACHING PRONUNCIATION. Why teach pronunciation?. Problems and approaches in pronunciation teaching. What pronunciation model to teach. VOWELS. The characteristics of the pure vowel sounds. The characteristics of diphthongs. Raising awareness of vowel sounds. CONSONANTS. The characteristics of the consonant sounds. Raising awareness of consonant sounds. Sample lessons. WORD AND SENTENCE STRESS. What is word stress?. What is unstressed?. Rules of word stress. INTONATION. What is intonation, and why teach it?. Tones, tonic syllables and tone units. Grammar and intonation. OTHER ASPECTS OF CONNECTED SPEECH. Why other aspects of connected speech?. Assimilation. Elision. PRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING. English spelling is not phonetic. Regular features of English pronunciation and spelling. Problems and approaches in the teaching of pronunciation. And spelling.