Effective teaching and learning of pronunciation involve various roles and responsibilities for both teachers and learners. Teachers play a crucial role by helping learners perceive sounds, providing hints, feedback, and information about their progress.
every person has different varieties and different accents
The learner's role
Factors that affect pronunciation learning
motivation is very important for learning a foreign language and the desire to do well is a kind of "achievement motivation"
a study suggests that when a person is younger, he / she will have a better learning
some people have a better ear for foreign languages then others
the amount of exposure the learner receives is very important. Advantages: when is exposed to English surroundings, have a better pronunciation. Disadvantage: If the learner is not surrounded by the English environment, it is possible that pronunciation is not so expsed clearly
the age factor: the more the younger people is involved, the more quickly pronunciation will have
native language: the more differences, the more difficulties the learner will have
Purposes
working
learning English for a practiccal purpose
aspects of pronunciation
intonation, speakers can change the pitch of their voice as they speak, making it higher or lower in pitch at will
sentence stress, a word may be given less weight because it has been said already, or it may be given more weight because the speaker wants to highlight it
weak forms, a word with only one syllable is unstressed in a sentence, its pronunciation is often quite different form when it is stressed
rhythm, there is a tendency for the strong beats to fall on nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs ans for the weak beats to fall on prepositions, articles and pronouns
stress words, it is done by saying that syllable slightly louder, holding the consonants very clearly
when English people say words in a natural way, speakers don't pause between the words
Consonant cluster, that is when two consonants occur at the end of a word
The teacher's role
give students information about their progress
decide and suit the activities according to the learner's styles
help learners to establish priorities, deciding what to concentrate on and when to leave well enough alone
help learners to know what to pay attention to and what to work on