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ISSUE 2 
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2022 
ISSN: 2181-1601
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communicative tasks in the language classroom, including those that focus on 
pronunciation [7].
Many teachers commence teaching English pronunciation with practice as they 
introduce vocabulary. This is the way many textbooks advise to teach pronunciation. 
However, for students with a mother tongue that bears no resemblance to English, this 
actually makes comprehension more difficult. Drilling pronunciation is another less 
than desirable form of instruction. A set up involves combining the teaching of 
pronunciation with that of spelling, another important skill, but the real starting point is 
on the level of the phoneme. Teachers of adults learning English should be aware that 
the goal of improving pronunciation for many adult learners is mutual intelligibility, not 
perfection [4]. 
Following each level are a few suggestions for level appropriate activities. Syllable 
Stress - students need to understand that multisyllabic words require syllable stress. 
Point out common syllable stress patterns. Voiced and Voiceless Consonants - Teach 
the difference between voiced and voiceless consonants. Have students touch their 
throats to note the difference between 'z' and 's' and 'f' and 'v' to demonstrate these 
differences. Silent Letters - Point out examples of words with silent letters such as the 
'b' in 'comb', '-ed' endings in the past for regular verbs. Silent E - Teach the influence of 
the final silent 'e' generally making the vowel long. Make sure to point out that there are 
many exceptions to this rule (drive vs. live). 
Teaching English pronunciation with phonics exercises: Perhaps the most obvious 
and conventional method for teaching English pronunciation is through phonics. 
Phonics focuses on learning the individual sound of a letter or set of letters, vowels, and 
consonants when learning to read. One has developed a useful diagram for 
understanding the process of phonics in learning pronunciation: “letters form sounds, 
sounds form words, words form sentences, sentences form stories, stories form 
meaning, meaning forms reading.” A new frontier for learning to pronounce words is 
through “visual phonics,” which teaches English pronunciation with animated texts, 
videos, and songs. Visual phonics physically animates sounds and words to help ESL 
learners internalize what they see and hear, distinguishing between different sounds, 
words, and meanings. According to one source, “visual phonics shows various reading 
skills, such as isolating sounds and syllables, segmentation, rhyming, and substitution, 
to help children visualize relationships between letters and sounds, sounds and words, 
and words and syllables”. Visual phonics lends a fun and creative atmosphere for 
learning English pronunciation. Teaching phonics to younger students should include 
pronunciation games (such as clapping the hands when a student hears a specific sound 
or acting out a word or letter sound), videos, and songs (perhaps singing a word or 
drawing out the sound of a letter) that incorporate animations, graphics, and total 
physical response to sounds. Another useful phonics game is having the students create 

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