... technique and reaction According to Longman Dictionary of LanguageTeachingand Applied Linguistics, languageteaching is sometimes discussed in terms of three related aspects: approach, method, and ... abilities and motivation in language learning, and poor teaching equipments, all of which are challenges for both teachers and students in pronunciation practice particularly and learning foreign language ... comprehension, reading and writing, and non-linguistic cues, e.g gestures, facial expressions) and with other aspects of language- grammar, lexis, style, function and discourse; on the other hand, pronunciation...
... to long and short vowels through listening and oral work, the teacher can check recognition, retention and ability to discriminate in the following way This could also be used simply for teaching ... examples, the word should begin and end with the same consonant 0, 3, 8, and 9, are long vowels and the rest are short Stage : The teacher then models each word and individal repetition follows ... the classroom It is a communicative exercise as it involves disagreement, repair and ( hopefully !) agreement among other things Many language learners feel self concious and negative about their...
... - Teachers’ beliefs and knowledge in pronunciation teaching; - Formal curricula; - Teaching goal and assessment; - Approaches and techniques; - Teacher’s roles - Teachingand learning materials ... Latin and Greek to Eskimo and Farsi Homographs and homophones are two typical examples of unequivalence of sound and spelling Referring to sound and spelling patterns, an effective pronunciation teaching ... transcribed and discovered the patterns of the teachers when they did the languageteachingand especially teaching pronunciation Next, she conducted a questionnaire based on the literature on teaching...
... highlights and shadows of a sentence When students have a good command of these aspects of sentence rhythm and melody, they will be prepared to understand why some words are reduced and what it ... of both rhythm and melody The reason is that for the purposes of teaching pronunciation, the teacher needs to understand that both these aspects of spoken English work together and are vitally ... prosody provides us with a handy way to refer to the interconnected aspects of rhythm and melody with a single label Rhythm and Melody as Road Signs In English, rhythmic and melodic signals serve...
... One and two and three and four One and a two and a three and a four One and then a two and then a three and then a four More Practice One two three four One and two and three and four One and ... Coffee, coffee Milk and sugar, milk and sugar Strawberries and cream, strawberries and cream Chocolate cake and chocolate biscuits Fish and chips Fish and chips Soup S-O-O-O-U-P Stress and Rhythm COffee, ... and Rhythm COffee, COffee MILK and SUGAR, MILK and SUGAR STRAWberries and CREAM, STRAWberries and CREAM CHOcolate CAKE and CHOcolate BIScuits FISH and CHIPS FISH and CHIPS SOUP S-O-O-O-U-P More...
... Steps for teachingand practising stress and intonation: Give a good model of the sentence, saying it at normal speed, making a clear difference between stressed and unstressed syllables and using ... exist in the students’ language E.g: The consonant /δ/ in “the”, /θ/ in “thumb” The Vowel /3:/ in “bird” Confusion of similar sounds 3 E.g: /i:/ and /i/, /u:/ and /u/, /b/ and /p/ Difficulty in ... target language The result is a foreign-sounding accent, and possible misunderstanding - Getting learners to perceive The first thing that needs to be done is to check that the learners can heat and...
... reading and spelling Pronunciation in languageteaching 2.1 The status of pronunciation in current languageteaching The status of pronunciation teaching in different schools of languageteaching ... as an international languageand as a mean to promote mutual understanding and cooperation between Vietnam and other countries In fact, more and more people desire to know and master English in ... strong and weak syllables (Kenworthy, 1987) Intonation Current ideas on pronunciation teachingand learning Changing outlooks on language learning andteaching have influenced the view of language...
... your fingers, and encouraging the learners to the same will really help with the rhythm of the English Teachers’ Network Workshop Teaching Pronunciation Nov 2010 chant, and make the language more ... to repeat again, both chorally and individually Keep repeating this English Teachers’ Network Workshop Teaching Pronunciation Nov 2010 process and adding on more and more of the sentence until ... Teachers’ Network Workshop Teaching Pronunciation Nov 2010 Procedure: 1) Display the poem on the board or with a projector Read it out to the class and check understanding of the language using translation...
... understand good language learning strategies and training them to develop and use such good language learning strategies can be considered to be the appreciated characteristics of a good language ... knowledge of and expectations about how language works, motivation, interest and attitudes towards the content of the text According to Ur (1996: 138) ―reading means reading and understanding‖ and according ... of them, and modify or adapt subsequent actions (Pajares, 1992) 2.3.2 The role of teachers’ beliefs in language learning and teaching: In fact, the way teachers think about, understand, and value...
... as an international languageand as a mean to promote mutual understanding and cooperation between Vietnam and other countries In fact, more and more people desire to know and master English in ... Briton and Goodwin, 1996) 1.2 Pronunciation in languageteaching 1.2.1 The status of pronunciation in current languageteaching The status of pronunciation teaching in different schools of language ... significant role of pronunciation in languageteachingand learning Pronunciation is one of the most important aspects of language We may be proficient at grammar and have a huge store of vocabulary,...
... pronunciation and grammar They are claimed to adopt the latest teachingand learning approaches: communicative approach and learner-centered approach and aim at developing both language skills andlanguage ... Shaul and Furbee (1998) stated that languages and cultures are systematic to a large degree, and are thus observable and describable Furthermore, many authors have pointed out that languageand ... difficulties in teachingand learning American cultural studies as perceived by the teachers? Scope of the study This study is limited to the teachingand learning reality with regard to teachingand learning...
... concerned, the period of Language Focus is the best time for us to revise, to expound and show the way to speak and pronounce words and sentences with the use of stress and intonation As teachers ... reading and pronouncing the words and sentences clearly, loudly and slowly Choose a reliable dictionary, preferably the Wordpower dictionary for reference and software Sephonic for learning and practicing ... words, and English sounds change the meanings in the very same way And there are many more differences in pronunciation between the two languages In this document I have tried to use common words and...
... pronunciation and grammar They are claimed to adopt the latest teachingand learning approaches: communicative approach and learner-centered approach and aim at developing both language skills andlanguage ... Teaching by principles: An interactive approach to language pedagogy New York, NY: Pearson Education Byram, M., & Grundy, P (2003) Context and culture in languageteachingand learning Tonawanda, ... Context and Culture in LanguageTeaching Oxford: Oxford University Press Kramsch, C (1998) Languageand Culture Oxford: Oxford University Press Krasner, I (1999) The role of culture in language teaching...
... failure in understanding the correlation between letters and sounds it stands for, and hence, resulted in students’ failure in understanding the text or even no intention to understand the text This ... letters, letter science to language study groups and especially syllables The system of speech sounds of a languageand a group of language Table 3: Comparison of Phonics and Phonetics (Merriam –Webster ... phonics and phonetic symbols are only two assisting tools and methods in pronunciation teaching The main teachingand learning method of English word pronunciation was through direct imitation and...
... intuitive and imitative as in the Direct Method When the Communicative Approach to languageteaching came to popularity in late 1970s, teachers decided that teaching suprasegmental features of language ... objective and unachievable, and that time would be better spent on teaching more learnable items, such as grammar and vocabulary The 1970s witnessed the two significant pronunciation teaching ... study ii ABSTRACT This study aims at testing how some teaching techniques used in the teaching of English consonant pronunciation at the School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University There...