Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World

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Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World

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Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World provides teachers with strategies and practical pronunciation ideas to help students aiming for international intelligibility or a native speaker accent.

  • ISBN: 978-0-19-408898-5
  • Pages: 104
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 276x210 mm

Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World is a practical guide for all teachers to help their students with pronunciation. The activities take a clear step-by-step approach explaining how to get the best out of an activity and why it works.

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Key features

  • Helps teachers and students establish goals and priorities, whether students are seeking international intelligibility or a native speaker accent.
  • Explains the importance of focusing on consonants, vowels and stress.
  • Encourages the use of the students' first language as a starting point for teaching aspects of English pronunciation.
  • Explores how technology can be used to aid pronunciation and also provide exposure to different accents.
  • Provides practical classroom ideas focusing on specific pronunciation points, using a step-by-step approach.
  • Stresses the vitally important role that pronunciation plays in communication and how this can be reflected in assessment.

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Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World explores the changing nature of English-learning today and the significance of this on teaching pronunciation. As more and more speakers use English as an international language, we need to equip learners to be easily understood.

This title is part of the highly regarded Into the Classroom series - short, practical guides that help teachers who work in the primary and secondary school setting to make sense of new teaching tools, techniques, and educational policy, with ideas for implementing them in the classroom.

Reviews

  • One of the main strengths of the book is to transform relevant theory on EIL into practical, everyday activities, placing teachers' experience and knowledge about their learners and these learners' own needs, difficulties, and interests in the centre of pronunciation practice. Focusing on learners and encouraging them to achieve international intelligibility are crucial steps within their language learning process. This is because, as explained by Walker and Archer, pronunciation is undeniably 'the very glue that holds the systems of the English language together'. To conclude, this is a book for teachers written by teachers, which makes a lot of difference.
    - Modern English Teacher, Ana P. Biazon Rocha, University of Sheffield
  • This volume provides expert advice as well as evidence-based guidance on an international intelligibility approach to the teaching of pronunciation. It is a valuable companion in the teaching of pronunciation in an EIL setting and has obvious merits. First, it is practical as it offers a variety of activities, all demonstrated clearly so that teachers can follow detailed procedures in the classroom. Second, it is illuminating as the practice activities and tips are designed to guide students to discover the rules by themselves. Third, it is reader-friendly in that the authors introduce in simple language definitions of voicing, aspiration, stress, and so on, so that readers can easily understand them. This thought-provoking volume is a source of inspiration for both veterans and newcomers to rethink the classroom practice in pronunciation teaching and learning in an EIL setting.
    - TESOL Quarterly, Jingna Li, Ocean University of China