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The teaching of pronunciation is really important but often neglected by teachers, because they lack the confidence and training to teach such skill effectively. Native English speakers are rarely taught phonetics in school and it can be said that they learn how to pronounce words along the way. As such, learning about phonology including the IPA and teaching it is a foreign concept for them. There is techniques that can be used to indicate intonation and stress (nonsense words, use of gestures, humming or singing, the board or contrastive stress). Pronunciation can affect the quality of the student's communication, because mispronouncing words can alter the meaning of what is being and eventually lead to misunderstanding.
