Teaching-Pronunciation发音教学课件.pptVIP

Teaching Pronunciation1- The role of pronunciation On the value of teaching pronunciation, there are different opinions: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 to language learn.2- Learner factors influencing pronunciation teachingWhether learners’ native language has similar sounds to English or not?Whether learners have more exposure to English?Whether learners are adults or not?3- Focus of Pronunciation Teaching for Chinses LearnersBeginning Chinese learners of English need a certain degreeof focus on pronunication.Great care should be taken to the distinction between pronuniciation and phonetics. The teaching of pronunication should focus on the students’ ability to identify and produce English sounds themselves. Students should not be led to focus on reading and writing phonetic transcripts of words, especially for young students.Phonetic rules should be introdued at a suitable stage. The should be avoided at the beginning stage, especially for young learners. Stress and intonation should be taught from the very beginning. 4- The goal of teaching pronunciation Generally speaking, learners of English as a foreign language cannot acquire native-like pronunciation, except those who start learning English at a very young age.5- Our realistic goal of teaching pronunicationConsistency(一致性): the pronunciation should be smooth and natural.Intelligibility（可理解性）: the pronunciation should be understandable to the listeners.Communicative efficiency（交际有效性）: the pronunciation should help convey the meaning that is intended by the speaker.6- Aspects of pronunication that should be taught SoundsPhonetic symbols and rulesStressIntonation7- Techniques for Teaching Pronunciation (Sounds:perception practice)Using minimal pairs. Minimal pairs are pairs of words which have only one sound different from each other. The teacher reads eith