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Teaching pronunciation is important for many reasons. In a study conducted over what was the most difficult aspect of English to learn the results showed pronunciation was the most difficult. In English there are multiple signals within pronunciation that can alter the meaning of a word of message. Rising intonation can signal questions and uncertainty yet also signal excitement. Pragmatic awareness is a high level of social and linguistic ability. One of the difficulties of teaching phonetics in the first place is raising awareness of places and manners of articulations which are never normally paid attention. There are engaging ways of doing so and there are whole lessons, part of lessons or picking up on individual cases to enhance the student's understanding and appreciation of pronunciation. One of the key engaging points here is using gestures to emphasize the production of articulation. I would personally be weary of spending long periods of time dedicated to pronunciation because there is so much variation and context 'gleans' meaning so as long as the message is conveyed pronunciation is more of a finesse to 'perfect' which native English speakers do not lose sleep over! And after all there could be social attitudes in the world of TEFL's about correct sounding English meaning good and proper English... Looking to achieve fun in language games can be employed around lessons on pronunciation, word games, tongue twisters, rhymes and rhythms can harness the importance of stress and intonation and prosody but also avoid paying too much attention to the menial trivialities which could easily be side-tracking and off-putting. This is to teach language for beginners so irony and sarcasm will have to wait.
