Description
Book SynopsisThis book aims to aid English teachers at the junior and senior secondary school levels in teaching pronunciation within a regular EFL syllabus. It presents such a way of incorporating the phonetic and lexical components so as to facilitate students’ acquisition of a standard phonetic system and to prevent them from forming habitual mistakes in individual words. It highlights key areas of the English phonetic system and provides examples of strategies how to use a course-book for the sake of teaching pronunciation. The discussion of teaching the phonetic system relies on the comparison between its conscious and unconscious acquisition. Teaching individual vocabulary items (especially reversing habitual mispronunciations) is analysed through contrasting mental and behavioural learning.
Table of ContentsContents: Phonetic transcription – Conscious vs. unconscious language acquisition – Teaching the phonetic system of English – Preventing habitual mispronunciations – Behavioural vs. mental learning – Sound to spelling relationship – Songs in teaching pronunciation – Public speaking and theatre performances in reversing habitual mispronunciations.
