What is your biggest challenge when it comes to teaching pronunciation?
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Nuances in pronunciation, regional accents, and individual speech patterns can pose challenges in accurately assessing and addressing each learner's specific pronunciation needs. Despite these challenges, I strive to provide comprehensive guidance, practice materials, and resources to support learners in improving their pronunciation skills to the best of my capabilities. As a language instructor, my biggest challenge when it comes to teaching pronunciation is providing individualized feedback and guidance to each student. Pronunciation is highly personal and can be influenced by a student's native language and personal speech habits. It can be difficult to address each student's specific pronunciation issues effectively, especially in a group setting. Hope this helps!
Get the student to tell you a story. In the story get one of the characters to share their thoughts. Simon's a big fan of adventure and was told by a psychic there was a hidden box at the top of the hill and there was cash inside it and he could only go and get the cash if he went at night. If he got the cash he was told he could keep it and share it with his friends if he was willing to go and get it. Now get them to edit. They can only think about commas and full stops. Simon, a big fan of adventure, was told by a psychic that there was a hidden box, at the top of the hill. There's cash inside it. `If he was prepared to go at night, he could retrieve the box. If he found the box, he would be able to share the money with all his friends. But he had to be willing to go and get it. Short edits made possibile by the use of punctuation. Better phrasing. Sun clauses. Changes in emphasis. Space for new words.
The biggest mistake when teaching pronunciation is not being familiar with the correct pronunciation and not count on your personal pronunciation which may not be the best. Especially, if you have a strong accent. I had this problem at the beginning of my career so I had to learn the correct sounds to be more effective.
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It is not a challenge, But I can say that as a teacher, Teaching pronunciation should be applied everytime especially if the learner focuses on fluency.
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Luke Anthony St-PierreQualified and Certified ESL teacher... Bilingual with 14 + years of experience
Its (without an apostrophe) is a possessive pronoun, like his or her. for nouns that don't have a defined gender. In contrast, It's (with an apostrophe) is the shortened form, or contraction, of it is or it has.
- "I could be a morning person, if morning happens around noon".
Let me hear you interpret this sentence 😊.
- What does "as above so below" mean?Sarrah
I met this phrase in the book and I was wondering about the meaning of "as above, so below." Here is the context where I met this phrase: In the meticulously designed garden, the arrangement of the flowers and paths reflected the harmony of the stars above, truly embodying the principle "as above, so below."
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It simply compares the harmony of the flowers to that of the stars... meaning same harmonous path the stars portray above (in the sky), it's same with the flowers below.
