Teaching PRONUNCIATION
Teaching pronunciation means to teach:
– phonemic alphabet
– individual sounds (phonemes)
– stress
– phonetical processes (e.g aspiration)
– intonation
– accents and dialects
Teaching pronunciation is the process of introducing phonetical units and organising the process to shape the ability to recognise, distinguish and pronounce them. Therefore, recognition//distinguishing and pronunciation are the stages of the teaching process (see below).
The process is based on three stages:
