Teaching Pronunciation
INTRODUCTION
According to the new school Curriculum and the European Council of Education the problem of teaching pronunciation in TEFL is a very actual one and it had been studied and analyzed by many great teachers. I tried also to do a research and I dedicated it to this topic :” WAYS OF TEACHING PRONUNCIATION IN TEFL “.I did it because I feel it important and necessary to be taught in schools lyceums or even individually.
My research comprises four chapters .The first one is a practical one , the second and the third are practical chapters and finely the last one is left for general conclusions.
As I have already mentioned the first chapter is a theoretical one and it is entitled “ Theoretical foundations of teaching pronunciation in TEFL “ . I thought it is necessary to speak here about difficulties in teaching and I am sure we can not teach English without having knowledge about micro skills and techniques used in modern teaching of English pronunciation.
Concerning the second chapter , that means the “ Practical Part “, I displayed a vast information about the most important peculiarities of teaching English sounds . Every teacher of English needs to know that pronunciation consists also in teaching English vowels , consonants and diphthongs as well . Students in their turn should be taught to practice all these aspects through exercises and many other activities .It helps to students to pronounce sounds like the English people do and to develop a great instinct in each learner to speak a beautiful English .
Chapter number three is dedicated to teaching prosodic features . That is to say that when English is taught we have to take into account that it can not be taught without teaching intonation, rhythm and rhyme and even stress and sentence stress . All these are rendered in this chapter and also I tried to show that activities are important in this domain too.
The last chapter is left as usually for general conclusions .While writing the
According to the new school Curriculum and the European Council of Education the problem of teaching pronunciation in TEFL is a very actual one and it had been studied and analyzed by many great teachers. I tried also to do a research and I dedicated it to this topic :” WAYS OF TEACHING PRONUNCIATION IN TEFL “.I did it because I feel it important and necessary to be taught in schools lyceums or even individually.
My research comprises four chapters .The first one is a practical one , the second and the third are practical chapters and finely the last one is left for general conclusions.
As I have already mentioned the first chapter is a theoretical one and it is entitled “ Theoretical foundations of teaching pronunciation in TEFL “ . I thought it is necessary to speak here about difficulties in teaching and I am sure we can not teach English without having knowledge about micro skills and techniques used in modern teaching of English pronunciation.
Concerning the second chapter , that means the “ Practical Part “, I displayed a vast information about the most important peculiarities of teaching English sounds . Every teacher of English needs to know that pronunciation consists also in teaching English vowels , consonants and diphthongs as well . Students in their turn should be taught to practice all these aspects through exercises and many other activities .It helps to students to pronounce sounds like the English people do and to develop a great instinct in each learner to speak a beautiful English .
Chapter number three is dedicated to teaching prosodic features . That is to say that when English is taught we have to take into account that it can not be taught without teaching intonation, rhythm and rhyme and even stress and sentence stress . All these are rendered in this chapter and also I tried to show that activities are important in this domain too.
The last chapter is left as usually for general conclusions .While writing the
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