What is the best method to teach pronunciation?
Which methods you use and think is the best?
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Student's ability to say a word is entirely depends on t's why. Sometimes a word's difficulty and in complexity are the only things keeping it from being pronounced. In this case dividing the word into a smaller part, Listening and saying, each part aloud then listening and repeating the whole world. If the learner's occasionally has trouble pronouncing the sound. We should focus more on the phonemes.
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Listen and repeat until the student can pronounce correctly.
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- John Kenmuir(AKA John Connor) Cambridge certified teacher since 1998, former IELTS speaking examiner
Tongue Twisters: they're highly adaptable (vocabulary), they can force the mouth to stretch further (by creating challenging sound pairs), you can write your own to focus on difficult sounds, and they're just simply fun.
escuchar, repite y mejora la pronunciacion
Listen and repeat
listening Practice And sayig it in sentense
You can type up a text for an existing recording, ask the student to record themselves reading it and compare the outcome. Practice saying it as the original person says it.
Dubbing and shadowing I guess are some of the most efficient methods to teach pronunciation.
- JennyCertified ESL Teacher who helps her student in Conversational English.
Reading, tounge twisters
Listening and talking practice
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