Comments on: Teaching English Pronunciation to ESL Students

By: Raphael

Raphael — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:27:33 +0000

Now enlish language has become a lingua franca for almost the whole world with non-native speakers outnumering the native speakers, do we still need to be placing emphases on correct pronunciation? Isn’t it aobout time we focus rater on intelligebility and communicative relavance?

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:05:33 +0000

Hi Angela, Just read your comment posted a while ago. Could you share some ideas on teaching pronunciation???

By: Griya

Griya — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:10:23 +0000

Hai Angela Wray..
I’m very interested when you mentioned about the games that you also used to the adults.. if it is no trouble may i know more about the games you used, Because i teach english to adults too but i’m still new. thank you very much

By: ginnelly gutierrez

ginnelly gutierrez — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:31:57 +0000

thanks for this information! I totally agree with you, I think I goog english teacher have to motive students to learn how to pronunce english in order to get good results in class,I mean the teacher must hepl them to acquire a range of vacabulary and of course to pronunce these words as much as possible in class or but their own.This is the role of a good teacher.

By: Güzide Çalışkan

Güzide Çalışkan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:51:28 +0000

Pronounciation is a problem in Turkey as well. Even teachers mispronounce a lot of words. In my classes, I use listenings, songs and news on the net to introduce them with the correct pronounciation, however, as you know there is not a certain pronounciation of a word in English, which makes our job more difficult.

By: the sun shine

the sun shine — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:50:46 +0000

Pronunciation becomes really difficult for foreign English speaker..nice info..

By: Angela Wray

Angela Wray — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:02:11 +0000

I’ve been teaching ESL for ten years or so and after so many requests from my students for help with pronunciation, I’ve started a phonics/phonemic awareness class. The program I use is intended for third graders, but my adult students love it. English is making more sense to them. It helps them pronounce the words in reading and in conversation. It also helps significantly with spelling. It’s basically a literacy program based on the sounds of the English alphabet with lots of reading practice. In addition, I use plenty of music and games that make it a lot of fun. The students also acquire vocabulary. It’s been my most successful class so far where students progress quickly. Please keep in mind that most of my students are hispanics with limited childhood education.

By: Salim

Salim — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:45:41 +0000

Thank you so much
It is so important