Some ways of focusing on specific pronunciation features

Some ways of focusing on specific pronunciation features

Bakhridinova Odina, Juraboyeva Gulmira,

Students of Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages,

Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Teaching English pronunciation is a challenging task, with different goals at each level. This guide on how to teach pronunciation provides a brief overview of the main problems to be solved at each level and points out the resources in this article, such as lesson plans and activities, that can improve English pronunciation skills. After each level, there are some suggestions for level-appropriate activities.

Voicing

Voiced sounds will make the throat vibrate. For example, /g/ is a voiced sound while /k/ is not, even though the mouth is in the same position for both sounds. Have your students touch their throats while pronouncing voiced and voiceless sounds. They should feel vibration with the voiced sounds only.

Intonation

The intonation of a word or sentence can be imitated with kazoo or humming. This will distract students from the meaning of the word or sentence and help them focus on intonation

Linking

We pronounce phrases or even complete sentences as a soft voice rather than a series of individual words. "Amy will disappear" will be translated as "Wilaymeegowaway". To help student’s link words, try to start from the end of the sentence and ask him to repeat a phrase and add more sentences when he is proficient. For example, "go away", then "aymeegowaway", and finally "Wilaymeegowaway", with no pauses between words.

Syllables

Ask students to count the syllables in a word and hold up the correct index finger, or place objects on the table to represent each syllable. Illustrates syllable stress by clapping the syllables of the corresponding words softly and loudly. For example, the word "beautiful" would be "bloss-soft-soft". Practice using a short list of words with the same syllable stress pattern ("beautiful," "phone," "Florida"), and then see if your students can number other words with that pattern.

ESL students must learn English pronunciation correctly, because pronunciation errors can hinder fluency and, in some cases, change the meaning of words. Learning the correct pronunciation method can help your students feel more relaxed when speaking English, sound less awkward or unsure about word choice. However, do not be disappointed, because there are many teaching methods that can help your ESL students improve their pronunciation of English words. For those students teaching Chinese students online, they should be familiar with the most common pronunciation problems encountered by ESL Chinese students. 1 The next step will involve using a variety of methods to help students improve their pronunciation, such as minimal pairing, syllable stress, and vocalization. As well as silent consonants, pinyin, etc. Let us study five techniques that are particularly useful for teaching English pronunciation to students online.

English Pronunciation Student

One of ALO7’s students demonstrating her English fluency during a competition. ALO7 students practice learn English in person in their after school program and then practice their skills with our online tutors in order to gain confidence and perfect their pronunciation and grammar skills.

1: Teaching English pronunciation with phonics exercises:

Perhaps the most obvious and conventional method of teaching English pronunciation is through speech. The focus of Pinyin learning is to learn the sounds of a single letter or a group of letters, vowels, and consonants while learning to read. A website has developed a useful diagram for understanding the process of speech in learning speech: "Sounds in the form of letters, words in the form of sounds, sentences in the form of words, stories in the form of sentences, meaning in the form of de stories, and reading in the form of meanings 2 The pronunciation of words is achieved through the "visual voice", which teaches the pronunciation of English through animated texts, videos and songs. Visual speech physically animates sounds and words to help ESL students internalize what they see and hear, thereby distinguishing different sounds, words, and meanings. According to one source, "visual speech displays various reading skills, such as isolating sounds and syllables, segmentation, rhyme, and substitution , to help children visualize the relationship between letters and sounds, sounds and words, words and syllables "3 The visual voice provides an interesting and creative environment to learn the pronunciation. English incitation. However, for older students, it is more important to pay attention to the pronunciation of the keywords (content and function words) in a sentence, because distinguishing the two is essential to understanding the meaning of the sentence.

References

1. 
   Teaching pronuncation A reference for teachers of English speakers to learners of other languages (Marianne Celse-Mursia, Donna M. Brinton ,Janet M. Goodwin
   
2. 
   https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/esl/pronunciation.cfm
   
3. 
   https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-teach-pronunciation-1210483
   
4. 
   https://blog.alo7.com/5-techniques-for-teaching-english-pronunciation/