MODULE 4. TEACHING PRONUNCIATION

The aims of teaching  pronunciation are:

• Help students recognize the different aspects of English pronunciation and introduce to students typical pronunciation activities.

• Give students basic techniques to teach different aspects of English pronunciation.

• Help students be aware of factors affecting learner’s pronunciation and their common pronunciation problems.

• All are correct.

Oral approach: pay little or no attention to pronunciation.

• True

• False

Word stress is the music of spoken English. Like word stress, sentence stress can help you to understand spoken English, even rapid spoken English.

• True

• Flase

Pronunciation teaching hasn’t to be integrated with other aspects of language and other skills

• True

• False

Teaching individual sounds should go into two stages : Presentation and Practice.

• True

• False

Consonant clusters do not exist in Vietnamese.          

• True

• False

   Process of teaching stress :

• Repeat whole phrase

• Isolate and repeat stressed syllable

• Repeat whole pharse again

• All the above steps

 In English, there are three main types of intonation:

• Rising intonation

• Falling intonation

• Rise- Fall intonation  

• True

• False

Which statement is correct?

• A. Students’ mother tongue doesn’t have any real effect on their acquisition of English language.

• B. Students need lots of exposure to English inside and outside the classroom to improve their pronunciation.

• C. Younger learners always perform better in pronunciation than older learners.

• D. Teachers should no longer worry about improving their pronunciation nowadays given how much help they’ve got from multi-media resources.

 Motivating students’ learning is as important as improving teaching method and techniques.

• True

• False