【英语教学法课件】Unit 6 Teaching Pronunciation.ppt

II. The goal of teaching  pronunciation Question: Should we require the students to acquire native- like pronunciation? Thank You! * * Unit Six Teaching Pronunciation I. Questions for discussion: Students do not need to learn pronunciation because pronunciation will take care of itself as the students develop overall language ability. Failure in pronunciation is a great hindrance in language learning. Two different ideas about teaching pronunciation: I. The role of pronunciation Do Task 1 on page 91. Why can’t most learners of English as a foreign language acquire native-like English pronunciation? Factors affecting pronunciation learning Learners’ native language Age (critical period hypothesis P92) Exposure Innate phonetic ability Motivation and concern for good pronunciation The goal of teaching pronunciation is not to teach learners to achieve a perfect imitation of a native accent, but simply to get the learners to pronounce accurately enough to be easily and comfortably comprehensible to other speakers. Goals of teaching pronunciation consistency intelligibility communicative efficiency Textbook P93 III. Aspects of pronunciation For most of its history, the teaching of pronunciation has been biased toward the aspects of the sound system. With the development of communicative approaches to language teaching, the importance of stress, rhythm, and intonation has been acknowledged. Some commentators have pointed out that faulty stress, rhythm and intonation patterns cause greater difficulty for hearers than the inaccurate pronunciation of individual sounds. What to teach (Gu P268, Book 1) sounds………the vowels and consonants combination of sounds…….pronunciation of words word stress….the stress in a word and shift of stress strong weak forms…the importance of the different syllables in maintaining the rhythm of the speech, especially the model verbs and auxiliary verbs linkage of sounds……..the liaison of sound in natural speec