How to Improve Your Pronunciation
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale In the context of Vietnam’s economic reform and global participation, English plays an extremely important role in helping its human resources to communicate with the rest of the world. Therefore, there has been a great demand for teaching and learning English all over the country for various purposes. However, how to speak English in general and English pronunciation skill in particular effectively is an important matter. Standard pronunciation should be kept in mind to be the most popular and affective way of speaking. It is true that good ability of pronunciation will give us many opportunities to improve our English and thus help us be able to look for good jobs in the future. In fact, many students in English Department of VCU are good at English writing and reading skill but often get trouble with speaking skill, especially in pronouncing. A big real problem here is that the pronouncing abilities of our students are not equal; a small part of them has quite good pronunciation whereas the rest has a poor pronunciation. This not only has negative effects on their study results, but their also on their communication and confidence. For these reasons, in the study, we would like to investigate the recent reality of pronouncing English in students of English Department of VCU, with a hope to partly improve our English pronunciation and reduce our pronunciation mistakes to the minimum.
2. Aims of the study This study is aimed at: - Investigating the recent reality of pronouncing English in English Department of VCU. - Identifying mistakes in English pronunciation faced by students at English Department of VCU. - Proposing some solutions with the hope of helping English students improve their pronunciation skill. 3. Method of the study In order to achieve the aims of the study, questionnaires, recordings and interviews were used to collect data and information from the
1. Rationale In the context of Vietnam’s economic reform and global participation, English plays an extremely important role in helping its human resources to communicate with the rest of the world. Therefore, there has been a great demand for teaching and learning English all over the country for various purposes. However, how to speak English in general and English pronunciation skill in particular effectively is an important matter. Standard pronunciation should be kept in mind to be the most popular and affective way of speaking. It is true that good ability of pronunciation will give us many opportunities to improve our English and thus help us be able to look for good jobs in the future. In fact, many students in English Department of VCU are good at English writing and reading skill but often get trouble with speaking skill, especially in pronouncing. A big real problem here is that the pronouncing abilities of our students are not equal; a small part of them has quite good pronunciation whereas the rest has a poor pronunciation. This not only has negative effects on their study results, but their also on their communication and confidence. For these reasons, in the study, we would like to investigate the recent reality of pronouncing English in students of English Department of VCU, with a hope to partly improve our English pronunciation and reduce our pronunciation mistakes to the minimum.
2. Aims of the study This study is aimed at: - Investigating the recent reality of pronouncing English in English Department of VCU. - Identifying mistakes in English pronunciation faced by students at English Department of VCU. - Proposing some solutions with the hope of helping English students improve their pronunciation skill. 3. Method of the study In order to achieve the aims of the study, questionnaires, recordings and interviews were used to collect data and information from the
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