3. Many students believe that learning
pronunciation is not important…
Can you guess why?
4. Fact
• Most teachers want their students to speak with a Good
pronunciation…
WHAT DOES “A GOOD PRONUNCIATION” MEAN?
5. • intelligible pronunciation—speaking in a way that most listeners,
both native and nonnative speakers, can understand without too
much effort or confusion. It’s not a bad thing if you can still tell that
the speaker comes from a particular country or region, as long as the
speaker can be easily understood by others
(Celce-Murcia, Brinton, & Goodwin, 2010)
6. Are we the ones to say what intelligible
pronunciation is?
Read the following text and make comments on it… do you agree?
7. What affects pronunciation learning?
• Age of the learner
• Motivation
• Personality and aptitude
• Methods and quality of teaching
• Exposure to the target language
• The influence of the learner’s language
8. Individual task
• You will have some minutes to plan an activity whose main goal is to
show domain of a phonological feature.
• You will have to implement your activity during the second hour of
class…
• Your activity should be at least 5 minutes long.
