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Methods and Strategies of Teaching Pronunciation方法和教学发音的策略
According to Kenworthy (1987), the reason why pronunciation is ignored is likely to be the teacher has no idea about how to teach pronunciation. Even though, there are some methods and strategies as well as techniques could be applied in pronunciation teaching.
The majority of English teachers would like to teach pronunciation without making teaching plan and they often teach pronunciation during correcting mistakes made by students in class; however, pronunciation teaching could be planned and should integrate with the teaching of grammar and vocabulary (Kenworthy, 1987).
First of all, the traditional pronunciation teaching method would be demonstrated. What we cannot deny is that the two procedures of traditional teaching method of pronunciation, imitation and discrimination drills, do make contribution to pronunciation teaching since students could be able to have automatic and routinized articulation through imitation and discrimination drills. There are three steps in drilling and imitation: model eliciting, choral repetition and individual repetition. Besides, taping students’ English may be of great help to pronunciation learning. What and how the student says could be taped during speaking practice, and then comparing the student’s speech with others’ and native-like pronunciation so as to focus on their own mistakes and then doing error correction.
In terms of teaching sounds, it could be said that using phonetic transcription
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