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Different parts that come to teaching pronunciation: 1) intonation > the variation in volume and pitch in a whole sentence and gives meaning and expresses emotions. The normal pattern is rise/fall. For questions and when the speaker expects a reply it's fall/rise. teaching intonation can for example be done with gestures and the use of pseudowords. 2) stress > intonation for individual words. Putting stress on a particular word in a sentence emphasizes it and make sense in the context. Individual words have stressed on a syllable. teaching can be done by, for example, using contrastive stress and chanting. Commonly sounds are joined, teaching this to students make them sound more natural and native and is therefore a good thing to teach students. 3) IPA (international phonetic alphabet) > sounds have an underlying phoneme which is made by manipulating the air flow through the speech organs. The main manipulators are place and manner of articulation and voice. techniques for teaching the pronunciation of indivudual sounds are making mouth diagrams and use of your own mouth > helpful to show how sounds are technically forme. Peer dictation where students help each other. Phonemes, because of the irregular spelling of English and the use of tongue twisters that are good practice to learn the difference between similar sounds. Although teaching pronunciation is intimidating or not considered important for a lot of teachers it is actually important. Language is about communicating and when people don't understand each other because of bad pronunciation good grammar and an extended vocabulary are of no use.
