英语教学法3.课件整理

Unit 6 Teaching Pronunciation

1. The role of pronunciation in language learning.

2. The goal of teaching pronunciation.

3.The aspects of pronunciation we need to teach.

4. The ways to help student to improve pronunciation.

6.1 The role of pronunciation

Why do learners make pronunciation errors?

The importance of pronunciation

What should be taught to the beginners, pronunciation or phonetic?

When should we teach phonetic?

1. Why do learners make pronunciation errors?

A particular sound may not exist in the mother tongue, so that the learners are not used to forming it and therefore tends to substitute the nearest equivalent he or she knows.

A sound does exist in the mother tongue, but not as a separate phoneme---the learner does not perceive it as a distinct sound that makes a difference to meaning.(sheep/ship)

The learners have the actual sounds right, but have not learnt the stress patterns of the word or group of words, or they are using an intonation from their mother tongue which is inappropriate to the target language.

What should be taught to the beginners, pronunciation or phonetic?

Pronunciation is more important than phonetic. Stress and intonation are as important as the sounds themselves and should be taught from the very beginning.

Whether pronunciation needs special attention or focus in language teaching depends on many factors especially learner factors.

Learners whose native language has similar sounds to English are less likely to have problems with pronunciation.

Learners who have more exposure to English need less focus on pronunciation.

Adult learners need more focus on pronunciation because they are more likely to substitute English sounds with sounds from their native language.

Beginning Chinese learners of English should focus on pronunciation and their ability to identify and produce English sounds themselves, because phonetic transcripts are more abstract and less meaningful.

3. When should we teach phonetic?

Phonetic rules regarding what sounds a letter or a cluster of letters should be pronounced are helpful for students to develop the ability to cope with English pronunciation and they should be introduced at a suitable stage. Beginners of English, specially young learners, should be avoided to teach phonetic.

Stress and intonation are as important as the sounds themselves and should be taught from the very beginning.

In the example below, different intonations for “Sorry” indicate different meanings. A neutral tone would indicate a normal apology. However, a sharp falling tone or a rising tone would mean the opposite.