Teaching pronunciation A1 (Grades 1-4)
Aim of teaching pronunciation is...
to develop listening/pronouncing and rhythm/intonation skills.
Pronunciation consists of three parts...
Hearing (acoustic)
Uttering (motor)
Meaning (semantic)
What does teaching pronunciation involve?
the sounds of the language, or phonology
stress and rhythm
intonation.
The main practical aim of teaching vocabulary in primary schools and secondary schools...
is to form the pupils’ vocabulary skills as a basic component of all the language activities.
Mental lexicon performs the functions of...
word storage
retrieval
comprehention
use
How many stages are there of foreign language?
3 (General secondary Education, Special secondary education, Higher education)
4 major reasons to teach pronunciation ( Morley, 1999)...
-Functional intelligibility
-Functional communicability
-Self-confidence
-Speech monitoring abilities
What is the absence of sound as in “Chis/t/mas”?
Elisions
It can be defined, roughly, as the words we teach in the foreign language.
Vocabulary
potential vocabulary include...
international words:
conversion
compound words
stem familiar words
The supra-segmental features of English...
•stress,
•rhythm,
•intonation,
•linking ,
•reduction,
•deletion
Pronunciation minimum is selected according to the following criteria...
1) compliance with the need of communication;
2) appropriate style for selection;
3) standardized pronunciation;
4) prevalence.
Examples of Authentic materials for designing pronunciation activities...
●Songs
●Poetry, rhymes, and chants
●Advertisements, menus, and pictures
●Magazines and newspapers
●Video clips from movies, TV programs, YouTube, or other online sources
●Stories, plays, and other literature
The second name of "mental lexicon"
“vocabulary in mind”.
Vocabulary in speech is divided into 3 parts:
easy
comperatively difficult
most difficult words
The segmental features of English...
•the individual vowel sounds.
•the individual consonant sounds.
When to teach pronunciation?
Harmer (2000) suggests 4 alternatives...
Whole lessons
Discreet slots
Integrated phases
Opportunistic teaching
Activities that target four important aspects of pronunciation that can aid the listener:...
●Listening for thought groups
●Listening for prominence
●Listening for stressed syllables and rhythm
●Listening for reduced speech
The smallest independent meaningful units of speech are called...
words
The stages of developing vocabulary subskills...
¨Step One: presenting new words
¨Step Two: helping students remember new words
¨Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own
Pronunciation minimum includes...
sounds, sound combinations, stress, main types of intonation.
Types of pronunciation practice...
Controlled practice:
Semi-controlled (Guided) practice:
Freer practice (communicative ):
It is present :)
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What is a vocabulary minimum?
word, word combination, phrase
What kind of visual images can we use?
•realia
•pictures
•masking
•drawing