While every teacher recognizes that it is necessary to teach English pronunciation, it is often ranked third in importance after vocabulary and grammar. Many teachers are at pains to correct their students’ pronunciation errors as and when they occur, yet they do not dedicate any time to formal pronunciation presentations or practice activities. Other [...]]]>

While every teacher recognizes that it is necessary to teach English pronunciation, it is often ranked third in importance after vocabulary and grammar. Many teachers are at pains to correct their students’ pronunciation errors as and when they occur, yet they do not dedicate any time to formal pronunciation presentations or practice activities. Other teachers focus only on common errors – either at the end of a lesson, or as a secondary activity in the middle for varying the pace of a lesson. The matter of pronunciation rarely takes up a whole lesson because of its potentially repetitive nature; in fact it is not unusual to see it restricted to a five or ten minute portion in some lessons.
Although it may seem less important than the teaching of grammatical structures and vocabulary because of the minimal time assigned to it by most syllabuses, pronunciation is an element essential to effective communication and is a subject with which all ESOL student teachers are expected to be familiar. The hardest work is usually done with beginners, who are in their initial stages of learning the sound system of a new language, however the work should continue at higher levels to achieve an even better pronunciation, to master some more complex words and structures and to prevent errors from becoming fossilized.

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