TeachingEnglish: How to teach pronunciation
How will the course help you?
By the end of How to teach pronunciation, you’ll be able to
- identify different elements of teaching English pronunciation
- evaluate and use activities designed to practise problematic sounds
- integrate pronunciation practice with other aspects of language learning.
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What are the self-study modules in How to teach pronunciation?
- Module 1 – Understanding pronunciation
This module gives an overview of pronunciation and how it links to the teaching of English.
- Module 2 – Engaging with pronunciation – individual sounds
The aim of this module is for you to know how to prevent and correct individual sound problems that are relevant to your own context. You experience and evaluate a range of activities designed to practise problematic sounds.
- Module 3 – Engaging with pronunciation – techniques and activities
The aim of this module is to help you understand how to integrate pronunciation practice in the classroom. The module looks at various aspects of pronunciation, including stress, intonation and features of connected speech. You experience and evaluate activities, and are given the opportunity to plan how to integrate pronunciation activities with other aspects of language learning.
Course reviews
What have other teachers said about how How to teach pronunciation helped them?
"One example is to include pronunciation activities in any lesson that I’m giving, which I’ve never done before. And I’ve found that this was a very easy way to teach pronunciation because it had a context and the students were motivated to learn sounds, intonations, and rhythm in a context they were familar with."
Course participant, Madagascar
"Instead of considering pronunciation as this impending and challenging lesson I have to teach every now and then, it is now a fun part of my everyday courses and is never absent during my planning. The activities I give my learners are now richer and more entertaining and thus they stick better in their memory."
Course participant, Tunisia
"During my day-to-day teaching, I applied the knowledge gained from the pronunciation course by incorporating focused practice sessions on stress and intonation patterns. For instance, I taught my students how word stress can change the meaning of words like record (noun) and record (verb). I also emphasized sentence-level intonation to help them sound more natural when asking questions or making statements. This not only improved their pronunciation but also boosted their confidence in speaking English."
Course participant, Egypt
great