Teaching Pronunciation Theỏitical

 The way a word/language is spoken word individual sounds vs.. stress & intonation  Intelligibility: The recognition of a word or another sentence-level element of an utterance Pronunc

TEACHING PRONUNCIATION: THEORETICAL

BACKGROUND

Designed & Presented by: Vu Thi Hoang Mai, MA

Faculty of English International Standard Program

 What is pronunciation?

 Why teaching

pronunciation?

 The way a word/language is spoken

word

individual sounds vs stress & intonation

 Intelligibility: The recognition of a word

or another sentence-level element of an utterance

Pronunciation

 Goals:

 to enable learners to understand and be understood ,

 to build their confidence in entering communicative

situations,

 to enable them to monitor their speech based on

input from the environment (Goodwin, 2001)

 Approach:

 a balance between segmentals and suprasegmentals,

 enhancement of intelligibility,

 applicability in real communicative situations

Teaching English Pronunciation

 Consonants

 Stress

 Strong forms & Weak forms

 Intonation

What to include?

English Consonants

English Vowels

English Diphthongs

English Triphthongs

 Word stress

 Sentence stress

 Primary stress:

 Secondary stress:

 Placement of stress:

 whether the word is morphologically simple or complex

 the grammatical category to which the word belongs

 the number of syllables in the word

 the phonological structure of the word

Stress

Two-syllable Words

 Nouns 1st syllable stressed

 Verbs & Adjectives, Prepositions,

adverbs  2nd syllable stressed

 Except verbs ending with /əʊ/: (e.g., borrow, furrow) or a short vowel

(e.g., punish, furnish)

 Last syllable: short vowel + 1 consonant

 2nd syllable stressed

ending with 2+ consonants  last

syllable stressed

Three-syllable Verbs

 Last syllable: short vowel or /əʊ/  unstressed

 2nd syllable: long vowel/ diphthong / ending

with 2+ consonants  stressed

 2nd and last syllables: short vowel + 1

consonant  1st syllable stressed

 Last syllable: long vowel/ diphthong / ending

with 2+ consonants  1st syllable stressed

Three-syllable Nouns & Adjectives

 Stress in derived words

 Primary stress on the affix

 Primary stress on the stem

 Primary stress on a different syllable of the stem

 Stress in compound words

 1st word/part is adjectival  primary stress on the 2nd

 1st word/part is a noun  stress on the 1st

Complex Words