WHAT I ALREADY DO DIFFERENTLY

WHAT I ALREADY DO DIFFERENTLY

Conventional pronunciation teaching is heavily based on 'Listen & Repeat' activities. In practice this doesn't work well, and Teaching Pronunciation Differently is about the alternatives to it.

Here are some pronunciation activities that you might already use in your classes which do not involve you providing a spoken model (yourself or a recording) for your students to listen to and copy: 

• Writing a word or a sentence on the board and highlighting the stresses
• Pointing out reduced syllables in some way
• Clapping your hands or clicking your fingers to convey the stresses in a sentence, and getting your students to do the same
• Drawing the cross-section of a head with a tongue on the board and showing your students how sounds are made
• Coaching a student to say something better without modeling a sound or the word

If you do something else that does not involve providing a spoken model, please tell everyone about it in the Comments section below.