pronunciation

done by Khawla Abdulla

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• OBJECTS :

• WHAT IS PRONUNCIATION

• WHAT MAKES ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULT

• ADVICES FOR IMPROVING PRONUNCIATION

• WAYS TO IMPROVING PRONUNCIATION

• WHAT IS PRONUNCIATION?

PRONUNCIATION REFERS TO THE PRODUCTION OF SOUNDS

THAT WE USE TO MAKE MEANING. IT INCLUDES ATTENTION TO

THE PARTICULAR SOUNDS OF A LANGUAGE

PRONUNCIATION IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE HARDEST SKILLS IN ENGLISH TO LEARN. IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME AND

EFFORT TO IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION.

• WHAT MAKES ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULT?

THERE ARE SOME SOUNDS IN ENGLISH THAT PROBABLY DON’T EXIST IN YOUR OWN

LANGUAGE – THERE IS NO SIMPLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPELLINGS AND SOUNDS IN

ENGLISH. WHEN ENGLISH IS SPOKEN QUICKLY, WORDS

ARE LINKED SMOOTHLY TOGETHER AND SOMETIMES SOUNDS EVEN DISAPPEAR

ALTOGETHER (THIS IS CALLED ASSIMILATION). THIS MEANS IT CAN BE

HARD TO UNDERSTAND .

• ADVICES FOR IMPROVING PRONUNCIATION

FIND OUT WHAT MISTAKES YOU MAKE. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT MISTAKES YOU ARE MAKING, YOU WILL

NOT BE ABLE TO IMPROVE.

TRY TO LISTEN TO GOOD MODELS OF SPEECH. ASK SOMEONE YOU KNOW TO RECORD FOR YOU SOME

TECHNICAL WORDS IN YOUR SUBJECT THAT YOU FIND IT DIFFICULT TO PRONOUNCE.

MARK UP A READING TEXT. PUT MARKS AND SYMBOLS ON A READING TEXT TO SHOW WHERE WORDS ARE

LINKED TOGETHER,

HAVE A VERY SPECIFIC ‘TARGET’ FOR IMPROVEMENT FOR THE WEEK. JUST SAYING ‘MY AIM IS TO IMPROVE MY

PRONUNCIATION’ IS TOO GENERAL AND UNFOCUSSED. YOU HAVE TO TRY AND IDENTIFY PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF PRONUNCIATION THAT YOU NEED TO DEVELOP. TRY TO

WORK SPECIFICALLY ON ONE ASPECT OF YOUR PRONUNCIATION EACH WEEK.

SOME PEOPLE FIND THAT RECORDING THEMSELVES AND LISTENING BACK CAN HELP TO SPOT ERRORS IN

PRONUNCIATION. BUT NATURALLY, YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHAT MISTAKES YOU MAKE FIRST.

USING PRONUNCIATION BOOKS AND CASSETTES, AND INTERNET WEB SITES, CAN HELP. THERE ARE USEFUL PRONUNCIATION SELF-STUDY BOOKS AVAILABLE AND

LISTENING TO THE CASSETTES AND PRACTISING REPEATING THEM FOR TEN OR FIFTEEN MINUTES A DAY CAN BE TIME

WELL SPENT.

• WAYS TO IMPROVING PRONUNCIATION

• LEARNING ENGLISH VOWELS AND CONSONANTS

• APPS FROM APP STORE

• LEARNING ENGLISH VOWELS AND CONSONANTS

VOWELS CONSONANTS

A VOWEL LETTER CAN REPRESENT DIFFERENT

VOWEL SOUNDS B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V,

W, X, Y, AND ZA, E, I, O, U

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