SECTION 8-9
TEACHING PRONUNCIATION – SPEAKING
(PracTESOL: It’s Not What You Say, but How You Say It! – Developing Discussion Skills in the ESL Classroom)
In this two sections, writer combined about two articles which discuss about teaching pronunciation and speaking. In teaching pronunciation, writer discuss about the “PracTESOL: It’s Not What You Say, but How You Say It”, because writer think, that the aim of pronunciation is how we say the words it self. And in teaching speaking, writer discuss about the developing discussion skill in the ESL classroom, writer will share, how to develop discussion skill in ESL classroom, in order the discussion activities in speaking classroom, students more active and participate.
In teaching pronunciation, study how communicate effectively, to communicative effectively, language learners need to become proficient in using the semantic, syntactic, lexical, morphological and phonological elements of the language being learnt, those are the elements of teaching pronunciation. All ESL learners want to be understood by others about the pronunciation, but not all will want to sound like native speakers; psychosocial and individual factors will influence their attitudes and motivation to modify their accent. In pronunciation, not only what the word say, but also how the word say. In teaching pronunciation, there are several steps. First is setting the context, we are as the teacher are teaching a unit of work on personal identification. we have introduced the relevant lexical items and grammatical structures using your preferred methodology. Second, diagnosing learners’ spoken English the phonological features we focus on need to be related to the ‘problems’ the learners are encountering. By this way we can identify individual learner ‘problems’ and those common to the group. Third, selecting the content learning is enhanced when learners are involved in the decision making process and the content of courses is directly related to their immediate needs and context. For these reasons, I believe that it is prudent to not only diagnose the learners’ phonological problems, but also the communicative contexts in which they use English outside the classroom. Forth, incorporating phonology into esl lessons we’ve established that the majority of learners have problems with stress and rhythm and intonation patterns. They’ve indicated that banking is a topic they are interested in. we as a teacher select relevant material for the level you’re teaching.