PRONUNCIATION IN ENGLISH

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PRONUNCIATION IN ENGLISH

IF YOU KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE IN A CORRECT WAY, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THE SOUNDS IN ENGLISH VERY EASY

Fluency

fluency is key to improve communication skills so errors should be seen as part of the learning process and correction should only be given if the message cannot get across.

Accuracy

the teacher should decide whether correction is worth interrupting, for example, if that specific mistake is constantly repeated. I

Fluency

Mechanical skills (length, pauses, speed Coherence Judgement skills (create and develop thoughts

Accuracy

Pronunciation Vocabulary Grammar

Although there are just 26 letters in the English language, there are approximately 44 unique sounds, also known as phonemes. These sounds help distinguish one word or its meaning from another. There are various letters and letter combination known as graphemes which are used to represent the different sounds.

The 44 English sounds are divided into two categories: consonants and vowels. There is a list below of the 44 phonemes, along with their International Phonetic Alphabet symbols, together with some examples of their use.

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

• As created by The International Phonetic Association, founded in 1886 in Paris to help school children to pronounce words in foreign languages and to help in the teaching of reading. Today, it is mainly used to promote the scientific study of phonetics.

Therefore, it serves to pronounce a word we have never read. We are also able to pronounce a word in a foreign language. The International Phonetic Alphabet consists of 107 sound symbols, 52 diacritics (accents) and 4 prosodic marks (intonations)

Alveolar sounds are produced when you place your tongue just behind your teeth and move it around, this is also known as alveolar ridge (see figure 1). Some alveolar sounds in English are /t/, /d/, /n/, /l/ and /s/. Postalveolar sounds are produced when the blade of the tongue comes into contact with the post-alveolar region of the mouth. Some postalveolar sounds are /ʃ/, /ʒ/. Palatal sounds are made when the tongue body raises up the hard palate (see figure 1) to form an effective constriction. An example is /j/. Velar sounds are produced when the back of the tongue raises towards the soft palate located in the roof of the mouth also known as velum (see figure 1). Examples of velar sounds are /k/, /g/ and /n/.

• Bilabial sounds involve using the upper and the lower lips. Lips come into contact to form an effective constriction. The sounds /p/, /b/ and /m/ are bilabial.
• Labiodental involves the lower lip with the upper teeth to form a constriction of the vocal tract. Examples of labiodental sounds are /f/ and /v/.
• Dental sounds involve the tip of the tongue in contact with the upper teeth to form constriction. Some examples are /θ/ and /ð/.

We will now revise how the different articulations of the vocal tract contribute to produce different sounds:

Watching and listen the next video about pronunciation

Watching and listen the next video about how to improve your pronunciation

TONGUE TWISTERS

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How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits

The big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug back. One-one was a race horse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two won one too

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