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Pronunciation teaching basicsRobin Walker
PronSIG One-day EventStrathclyde University
26th October 2019
1. Basic techniques
2. Discrimination
3. Production
4. Resources
Outline
Talk tothe world
1. Providing a model
a) By what means – CD or your own voice?
b) How often and how fast?
c) Individual or choral responses?
d) Point or use names?
e) Model utterance every time?
f) What order?
g) Your position?
1) Basic techniques
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1) Basic techniques
2. Some students want to know the meaning of some of the vocabulary in a pronunciation exercise.
3. Your students want their books open while practisingpronunciation.
4. What should you do about mistakes? Should you correct them every time and immediately?
5. What would you do with a student who fails to pronounce something correctly even after various attempts?
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nose
top teethtop lip
bottom lipbottom teethback
tooth ridgehard palate
soft palate
throat
jaw
fronttip
1) Basic techniques
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6. The naming of parts
• O• I• L
• O often• I integrated• L
1) Basic techniques
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7. The oiling of parts
grammar
pronunciation
speaking
1) Basics
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• O• I• L
• O often• I integrated• L little
1) Basic techniques
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7. The oiling of parts
1. Basic techniques
2. Discrimination
3. Production
4. Resources
Outline
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Professional Development 10
Perception (hearing specific differences)
2) Discrimination
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Professional Development 11
Perception (hearing specific differences)
2) Discrimination
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Professional Development 12
Curlew (50–60cm)
Whimbrel(37–47 cm)
Perception (hearing specific differences)
2) Discrimination
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Professional Development 13
Whimbrel Curlew
Perception (hearing specific differences)
2) Discrimination
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Professional Development 14
Whimbrel or Curlew?
Perception (hearing specific differences)
2) Discrimination
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• sounds in contrast• same-different• odd man-out• classify
• initial / medial / final • words / sentences• teacher / pairs-groups
Perception (hearing specific differences)
2) Discrimination
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Sounds in contrast – minimal pairs
imPORtant IMpotent
2) Discrimination
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I live in SPAIN I LIVE in Spain
Soundsin contrast
2) Discrimination
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2) Discrimination
Bowler & CunninghamThe Headway Pronunciation Course
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Same–Different or
Odd–one–out
2) Discrimination
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Sounds in contrast:classifying sounds
2) Discrimination
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2) DiscriminationMark HancockPronunciation Games, CUP.
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1. Basic techniques
2. Discrimination
3. Production
4. Resources
Outline
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3) Production
– Imitate– Demonstrate– Explain– Associate– Stimulate
IDEAS
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D – Demonstrate
3) Production
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p b m f v θ ð w
t d tʃ dʒ s z ʃ ʒ n
k g j h r l
Easy
OK
Hard
3) Production
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D – Demonstrate
3) Production
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• a natural thing to do
• is physical and visual (multiple intelligences)
• requires no meta-language
• is immediate and on-demand • can easily be exaggerated / repeated
/ slowed down / etc.
• can provoke laughter & enjoyment
D – Demonstrate
3) Production
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/æ/backcan
have
E – Explain
3) Production
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This is an open sound made with a lot of force in the larynx, the sides of the tongue in light contact with the upper molars, and the lips spread.
What’s got to come out, if you do it well, is a almost strangled sound,
with quite a lot of muscular tension in the throat.
E – Explain
3) Production
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Press your tonsils against the underside of your larynx.
Then with the convex part of the septum curved upwards so as almost but not quite to reach the uvula, try with the tip of your tongue to reach your thyroid.
Take a deep breath and compress your glottis. Now, without opening your lips, say
Garoo!
E – Explain
green
red
purple
grey
brown
3) Production
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D – Associate
D – Associate
3) Production
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3) Production
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D – Associate
3) Production
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D – Associate
ɜɜːː
3) Production
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D – Associate
3) Production
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D – Associate
//iiːː// vvss //ɪɪ//sshheeeett sshhiitt
3) Production
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D – Associate
• tongue twisters• spotlighted sounds• games (minimal pairs (words /
sentences)• communication activities• songs (ETp 43; EGC web)• student recordings
3) Production
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S – Stimulate
1. Basic techniques
2. Discrimination
3. Production
4. Resources
Outline
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4) Resources
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4) Resources
Walker, R. 2008. ID2EAS for teaching pronunciation. Modern English Teacher Vol 27 Issue 1; 11–15.
Available online at: https://englishglobalcom.wordpress.com/articles/
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Pronunciation teaching basicsRobin Walker
PronSIG One-day EventStrathclyde University
26th October 2019
