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The Unit shows how to teach pronunciation and phonology to non-native speakers. In the rise/fall intonation, the pitch would gradually rise and then lowers. This is a normal pattern of intonation in a statement where the speaker does not need immediate response. In the fall/rise intonation, the speaker asks a question to which he/she requires an answer. These intonations can be taught to students by asking them to speak nonsense words, making hand gestures for rise and fall of intonation, humming or singing to hear the stress and intonations or by marking the stress and intonations on the board. There can only be one stress in a word. The syllables can only be stressed, not the vowels or consonants.Most 2 syllable nouns and adjectives stresses on first syllable. Most 2 syllable verbs stresses on the last syllable. The lack of stress in any sentence or word means that the speaker is not interested. Stress can be taught to students through gestures, stress marks, board, choral work or contrastive stress. There are 4 major ways in which sounds are joined in English : linking, sound dropping, sound changing and extra lettering. Place of articulation : The sound is connected to different organ or area, for example, Velar, Palatal, Palatal-alveolar, Alveolar, Dental, Labio-dental,Bilabial, Glottal. Manner of articulation : The different ways of saying is referred to as manner of articulation. 1. Plosive - When air is in the chords and the sound is made in a sudden manner, eg, /b/, /d/, /k/, /g/ Fricative - creates a friction, eg, /f/, /v/ Nasal - air escapes only through nasal cavity, eg, /m/,/n/,/ng/ Lateral - The air escapes through the side of the tongue ,eg, /l/, /r/ Affricate - build up of air but gradual release of air Approximant - produced by narrowing the vocal tract The teaching of individual sounds can be taught by visuals, using own mouth to show how sound is produced or by asking students to dictate slowly to other student.
