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UAB TED MASTERS DEGREE

O r al s ki l l s and Engl i sh pronuncia t ion

/tʃ/ AND /ʃ/ SOUNDS

INDEX

Main differences

Difficulties for Spanish speakers

How to help students

Possible activity

References

(Game instructions)

END

MAIN DIFFERENCES

Both are coronal (articulated with the flexible front part of the tongue), voiceless and sibilant.

Fricative Pulmonic

Affricate Non pulmonic

INITIAL: Chef – Shoe – Shop MID: Action – Passion – Station FINAL: Dish – Wash - Moustache

POSITION

INITIAL: Change – Check – Cheap MID: Future – Teacher– Picture FINAL: Catch– Watch - Match

POSITION

/ʃ/ /tʃ/

http://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/english/english.html

DIFFICULTIES FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS

Chaleco – Cachorro - Chocolate

*Although some Spanish dialects such as Andalusian, Mexican

and Chilean do have the sound [ʃ].

Spanish speakers can have a hard time distinguishing de “sh” [ʃ] and “ch” [tʃ].

/ʃ/

/tʃ/

HOW TO HELP STUDENTS

To help students to produce these sounds:

1.  Their lips round a bit, halfway into pucker 2.  Their top and bottom teeth get close to each other

To help students to produce each sound:

/ʃ/ Requires a flow of air through the teeth which allows them to hold the sound for a long time.

“sh” /ʃ/ (1…2…3…4…5)

/tʃ/ Is produced with one strong puff of air through the teeth which is then stopped.

“ch” /tʃ/ (1…)

POSSIBLE ACTIVITY

SNAP GAME

1.  Ask students to make groups of 3.

2.  Elicit some vocabulary from previous lessons with [ʃ] and [tʃ]

sounds. This will help students to refresh the possible

representations of the sounds.

3.  Cut up the cards and give one set to each group, together

with the answers sheet.

GAME INSTRUCTIONS

In each group there should be 2 players and 1 referee. The students deal out the cards into 2 piles. Students place their pile face down in front of them. The player on the left takes his/her top card, turns it over and places it face up in the middle of the table while he/she pronounces the word. The next player does the same.

The game continues until a player notices that the last card had the same pronunciation as the one he/she is turning over. The first to shout SNAP! Will receive all the cards in the pile. The winner will be the player with most cards.

The referee will be in charge of checking the pronunciation of the words.

REFERENCES •  Affricate consonant. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved February 28, 2016,

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affricate_consonant

•  Elemental English. (2016, February 28). Retrieved from http://

www.elementalenglish.com/sh-vs-ch-english-pronunciation/

•  Fricative consonant. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved February 28, 2016,

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fricative_consonant

•  Kelly, G. (2000) How to teach pronunciation. Edinburgh: Pearson-

Longman.

•  The Tiny TEFL Teacher. (2016, February 28). Retrieved from

http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/teacher/pronunciation.html

•  Fricatives / Affricates images (2016, February 28). Retrieved from

http://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/english/english.html

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