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Teaching pronunciation to English learners is more than "repeat after me" and more than theory and looking at pictures. Let's take a multisensory approach.
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Pronunciation:Quick Tips and
Presentation Tricks
(Using your senses approach)
Robert J. DickeyKeimyung University
Elicitation Ahead!
Issues
Issues
• Student Wants vs. Needs
• Theory (Phonology & Phonetics vs. Phonics)
• Segmentals vs. Suprasegmentals
• International Varieties of English & “the Core” vs. Target (US, UK, Australia, etc)
• Can’t teach what you don’t speak???
• “KATUSA disease” (‘fluency’ first?)
Using the Senses inTeaching Pronunciation?
Using the Senses inTeaching Pronunciation?
1. See (Visual)
3. Taste (Delicious)
5. Smell (Nasal)
7. Time (Rhythm)
9. Adventure and Fun! (Openness)
2. Hear (Audio)
4. Feel (Tactile/Kinesthetic)
6. Reason (Sensible)
8. Decorum (Culture)
Focus on the Mechanical(from Marc Helgesen Aug 12 2010)
• Source of Sounds? (Think “Why”)
• Silent Speaking (Raising Awareness)
• Visualization (See Success)
Focus on the Mental
• Native-speaker Awareness of L1 (Consciousness-Raising)
• What’s “Impossible”? (Openness)
• Visualization (See Success)
Pronunciation’s Continuum of Complexity
Let’s consider illustrations(visual-based learning tools)
Let’s consider illustrations(visual-based learning tools)
• What have you seen/used?
Let’s consider illustrations(visual-based learning tools)
• What have you seen/used?
– Consider “beat” / “bit” / “bet”
Textbook drawing /i/ ( e )
5-second drawing /i/ ( e )
Dynamic Imagery /i/ ( e )
What else could we do?
What else could we do?
• Duration (long “e” versus very short “I”)
• Teach tenseness (muscles) with fingers on mouth
• Teach tenseness with elbows against ribs
• Think Piano (scales)
• L1 referents?
Morley’s Cardinal Vowel Quadrilateral
Cook’s Jaw & Lip Positions
Hewings’ Lip Positions
Hancock/Sylvie Mouth Images
Hancock, M., Sylvie, D. (2007).English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate.
Cambridge Univ Press.
American Phonetic Spellings
Webster’s NewWorld Students’ Dictionary (Macmillan/Simon&Schuster, 1992)
Underhill’s IPA Chart
Underhill, A. (1994). Sound Foundations. Macmillan.
Forrest’s GA Variant
Dillon’s Online Sounds
speechinaction.com
Bilabial/Fricative Comparison
Hewings’ Front & Back Vowels
Hewings’ R & L
S – Sh – Th2 Quickdraw
Minimal Pairs
• She sells seashells by the seashore (Try with the “hand-jive”)
• Leo the lion loved little lambs for lunch
• Larry’s red Lemans raced Roy’s yellow roadster
• The zebra joined the giraffe in the zoo.
Syllables: Vowel-Consonant Mix
• The shortest spoken word in the English language is “it.” Why?
• Some consonants (can) change the flavor of some vowels. Examples?
Word-level Intonation
• Noun vs Verb stress ( ‘record, re‘cord )
• Two, three, four syllable stress– Rhythm (timing)– Duration (time length)– Volume (loudness)– Emphasis (attack, kinesthetic, other)
Dynamic Imagery (Lengths)
Sentence-level Intonation
• Common patterns– Simple Statements– Yes/No Questions vs. Other Questions
• Drawing patterns <dots/dashes, lines…>
• Stressed items(new thoughts, personal emphasis, etc)
I really like Jim’s red car (red car)
Guides on common issues
Hewings, M. (2004). Pronunciation Practice Activities. Cambridge Univ. Press.