The presentation of teaching pronunciation.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 466.

Production practice

Listen and repeat

Fill in the blanks

Make up sentences

Use meaningful context.

Use pictures.

Use tongue twisters

1). To introduce the sound.

The first step in actual classroom instruction is to introduce the sound, to focus the students' attention on the teaching point.

e.g. We can teach the words eat, he, she, seat, see, etc. with the help of learning A,B,C,D,E,

2). Imitation, description and comparison and contrast.

The sound system is known to be learned best through imitation of the sound patterns, description of phonological systems and comparison and contrast of different sounds.

imitation

Students learn a new sound by listening to the teacher's modeling, following the teacher's model and trying to produce the sound in the way the teacher do. Since most of the teachers are not native speaker of English, tapes or records are very helpful for the students.

description

For Chinese junior high students, however, mere imitation is not enough, because students at this stage have already passed their best age for imitation and they have also acquired some knowledge of the Chinese sound system and considerable ability to learn abstractly, besides, some consonants are so weak that it is very difficult for them to imitate.

e.g. [ ] [ ] [dz] [ ] [d ] [ ]

Comparison and contrast

Comparison and contrast have proved to be also very effective in teaching the sound system. Teachers should contrast the sound being taught with the nearby English sounds. e.g.

[ ]--[e] [u]--[u:] [i]--[i:]

[p]--[b] [f]--[v] [ ]--[ ] [l]--[n]--[r]

3). Familiarization

After the students can pronounce a certain sound correctly, the teacher should provide words that contain the sound. e.g.

[i]: it ,rid. live, live, bill, fill, fist

[i:]:eat, read, leave, bean, feel, feast

4). Production

At this stage, the students are now learning to pronounce sounds through imitation.

Example with the words learned should be given and pronounced.

e.g. Read it, please. Please eat it.

Leave the beans here. Please sit in this seat.