Which of the following areas do you think is most critical in ensuring communicative effectiveness? Why? Which one is easier to learn?

• Accurate production of individual sounds

• Accurate word stress• Accurate sentence stress• Accurate strong and weak forms• Native-like rhythm• Accurate intonation

Source: CELTA Unit 36

PRONUNCIATION: THE MYTH

CPR – Avilés 2011 – 2012

Based on: Teaching Pronunciation

by Judy B. Gilbert

Theory

Practice

“If learners have failed to learn the stress pattern of a new word, they may also fail to recognise that word when it

occurs in spoken form”

/jɪə-r-end kæʃ/

/ɪərenkʌʃ/

Main aim: Becoming “listener friendly”

RHYTHM

MELODY

PROSODY

/ˈprɒsədɪ/

THE PROSODY PYRAMID

PEAK

STRESS

FOCUS WORD

THOUGHT GROUP

The Thought Group

The chunks of speech are the organization

of the speaker’s thoughts into groups

HUIP T6.4a T6.4b

Focus Word(usually a content word)

T.4

HUIP T11.3

Stress and the Peak Syllable

LEARNERS NEED TO KNOW

THE STRESS PATTERN OF A

WORD IF THEY ARE GOING

TO USE IT AS A FOCUS WORD

IN A THOUGHT GROUP.

Source: CELTA Unit 36

A: Well B: Well

A: Well B: Well

A: Well B: Well

Stress – Rhythm - Intonation

1. Read these short dialogues aloud and decide together how and why the second sentences changes.

2. Say the pairs of sentences, what’s the difference in meaning? How is it conveyed?

Source: CELTA Unit 36

Do these activities and Evaluate from a learner’s

point of view how they would help you improve

your pronunciation.

Source: CELTA Unit 37 Ac.B

INTEGRATEDINTELLIGIBLE

COMMUNICATIVERECEPTIVEACCENT R.P.

CONTEXT EIL (English as an Int’l

Lang) TEACHABLE

Source: CELTA Unit 37 Reflection

CLASSROOM APPLICATION