Awareness Learners should be encouraged to view a language as a complex living phenomenon and not just as a number of words arranged according to simple rules. Introduce the term ‘language awareness’

: Teaching stress (word stress, sentence stress)
Evaluating phonology activities and Designing phonology tasks
“Stress” is part of the rhythm of a language, the pattern of stressed or emphasized syllables and unstressed syllables of which English sentences are made up. Appropriate sentence stress is important for native-like or even comprehensible speech: if the stress pattern is incorrect, then listener comprehension will suffer.
Many ESL students lack an understanding of English sentence stress, however, often giving each syllable equal length, resulting in monotonous and difficult to understand speech.
What are Methods to Teach Native- Like Sentence Stress?
Start by Discussing Stress Read a sentence aloud from the textbook without stressing content or main idea words. Ask students if they think it sounds right. They will probably say no. Then read the same sentence with the correct stress pattern. Ask them what they think now. This will raise their consciousness about stress.
Introduce Syllables Stress in English interacts with syllables: that is, syllables alternate between stressed and unstressed within a sentence. Select a sentence from a dialogue in your textbook and model “beating out” the syllables on the desk. Have students do the same. Have them count the syllables in the sentence.
Elaborate on Stress Explain the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables. Explain the stressed syllables are louder and longer. Stressed syllables tend to occur
in content words such as nouns and verbs; structure words such as articles and prepositions are usually unstressed.
The importance of pronunciation for successful communication
Pronunciation is the most important and difficult problem that non-native English speakers have to face when studying English. Improper pronunciation can lead to negative impression, misunderstanding and ineffective communication. This page is designed to indicate some negative impacts of poor pronunciation and to provide you with some tips for the improvement.