Namangan davlat universiteti ingliz filologiyasi fakulteti amaliy ingliz tili kafedrasi

Recording and analysing conversations. Students’ speech is recorded on tape / video and then played back for the whole group to discuss the importance of pronunciation for successful communication


TEACHING STRESS (WORD STRESS, SENTENCE STRESS).
Aim: to focus on importance of word stress


Objective:

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  identifying and practicing word stress
  
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  some general tendencies for word stress in English
  

A language learner needs to engage with a word many times, preferably in different ways, in order to really learn it - identifying and practicing word stress can provide one or two of those engagements.

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  Why word stress is important
  

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  What word stress is
  

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  Some 'rules' of word stress
  

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  How I help my students
  

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  In the classroom
  

Why word stress is important

Mistakes in word stress are a common cause of misunderstanding in English. Here are the reasons why:

Stressing the wrong syllable in a word can make the word very difficult to hear and understand; for example, try saying the following words: 

o O  b'tell

O o  hottle

And now in a sentence: