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Many teachers give less attention to the teaching of pronunciation because oftentimes, 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. On my part, I?m a non-native English speaker but I have never studied the IPA system in school either. I have seen the symbols before but I?ve never given much thought to any of it. In fact, I only learned to write the phonetic symbols here in China. When I first came to China, I would cover pronunciation in my classes but when the students started asking me to write the phonetic spelling, I didn?t know how to do it. Looking back, I realized I should have taken my TEFL course before I came to China! J Task 2 ? State, with a brief description, techniques that can be used to indicate intonation and stress: 1. Nonsense words ? Teachers ask their students to utter nonsense words like ?ging geng gong pak pik? to convey different feelings such as being angry, bored, happy, surprised, etc. After practicing with nonsense words, the students can then practice with real sentences. 2. Use of gestures ? Teachers can use their hands to guide the students by giving a clear sweep of the hand either up or down to indicate a high or a low pitch. Gestures such as clapping, clicking of fingers, and tapping on the desks or board are also helpful in indicating stress. 3. Humming or singing ? Students can also sing out the sentences or hum the words together. 4. The board ? The board is there for teachers to utilize. Giving a visual presentation by using straight or angled arrows, stress marks, underlines, and capital letters can emphasize the point being made. 5. Contrastive stress ? Let the students hear the difference in stress and intonation by giving them two examples, one is the correct one and the other is the incorrect one. Teachers just need to make sure that they repeat normally so the last thing in the students? mind is the correct one. Task 3 ? For each of these sentences, give the meanings indicated by the
