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Pronunciation Pronunciation is the most neglected aspect of English language teaching. Phonology is the study of the physical properties of sound Intonation is the variation in volume an pitch in a sentence. Stress is concerned with a single word. It is fundamental to communicating emotions. Rise and fall pattern is a means of communicating where the pitch rises and falls at the end, which implies a completion of the message. The fall and rise pattern of intonation indicates surprise, and or disagreement, and that the speaker wishes a response. A flat level of intonation indicates that the person doesn't have much to say or doesn't want to communicate. Techniques for teaching intonation include:Nonsense, words, by gesture, humming or singing, and the board. Stress is used to show the most important word for the sentence. A multisyllable word have one or more parts that can be stressed. rules of word stress: one word has only one stress, and we can only stress syllables. It is best that students try to feel their way to right stress emphasis of words. Auxillery verbs, pronouns, articles, pronouns and prepositions are rarely stressed. Techniques for teaching stress: contrastive stress, gesture, choral work, the board, and stress marks. There are four major ways sounds are joined together: Linking, Sound dropping, sound changing, extra lettering linking speech uses phoenitic sounds to link words together and make them sound more natural. The phonemic alphabet is a means of understanding phoenetic sounds. There are many speech organs that help with articulation. manners of articulation include: plosive, fricative, nasal, lateral, affricate, and approximant. Teaching techniques for teaching individual sounds include:Peer dictation, your own mouth, visuals, phonems and tongue twisters. Pronunciation teaching techniques: whole lesson, lesson slots, and as and when required.
