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CHAPTER 5: PRONUNCIATION - Coggle Diagram
CHAPTER 5: PRONUNCIATION
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Goals
The nativeness principle which sets a native-speaker goal for learners, and the intelligibility principle which accepts accents and sets understanding as the goal.
These include most of of the consonant sound with some provisos, initial consonant clusters, the distinction between long and short vowels, and the placement of contrastive stress.
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Stress and Intonation
Found that getting learners to listen and perform texts recorded by native speakers was viwed positevely by some learners as a way of improving their control of pronunciation, particulary prosodic features.
Teaching Word Stress
Strong stress often goes with an increase in the length of the syllable and a change in intonation. Teacher taps the stress pattern of a word, with a hard tap for the stressed syllables and soft for the others.
Teaching Sentence Stress
Allen (1972) suggests using a simple situation where a person is asking for something but the other person keeps giving him the wrong thing.
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