Teaching Pronunciation Techniques and Drills for Effective Learning
Explore teaching techniques and drills for pronunciation focusing on activities like awareness exercises, games, and drills based on minimal pairs. Emphasizing the importance of physical activities in developing muscular flexibility for better pronunciation skills.
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Phonetics & Phonology John Corbett: USP-CAPES International Fellow Session 9: Teaching Pronunciation 1
This session: Teaching techniques for pronunciation Issues for teaching and learning Today s session
Pronunciation teaching tends to assume the following: Learners need to practise perceivingunfamiliar sounds Learners need to practise producing unfamiliar sounds Assumptions & Activities Typical activities: Awareness exercises Drills (physical repetition) Games (awareness and production) Drama (including mirroring/shadowing)
Often based on minimal pairs Identify the words pronounced in the following sentences: 1) You press this button and the mechanism hits/heats the water. 2) Everyone agreed that it was a beautiful terrain/train. 3) After the accident, she realised she had lost her earing/hearing. 4) He ordered fourteen/forty nice big roses. 5) I bet she never expected to see her rival/arrival. 6) It still amazes me that I can chair/share the meeting online. 7) The whole building site was a mass/mess of concrete. 8) Her little girl is insisting on going to ballet/belly dancing classes. 9) He told me that he sold tree/three houses. 10) I d like to introduce my colleague, Dean/Jean Smith. 11) It s a new advertising campaign, to promote peas/peace. 12) She put the ladder/letter away in the cupboard. Awareness activities
In pairs or threes, you choose which word to say and practise with your partner(s). 1) You press this button and the mechanism hits/heats the water. 2) Everyone agreed that it was a beautiful terrain/train. 3) After the accident, she realised she had lost her earing/hearing. 4) He ordered fourteen/forty nice big roses. 5) I bet she never expected to see her rival/arrival. 6) It still amazes me that I can chair/share the meeting online. 7) The whole building site was a mass/mess of concrete. 8) Her little girl is insisting on going to ballet/belly dancing classes. 9) He told me that he sold tree/three houses. 10) I d like to introduce my colleague, Dean/Jean Smith. 11) It s a new advertising campaign, to promote peas/peace. 12) She put the ladder/letter away in the cupboard. From awareness to production
Drills are often criticised for being: Boring Repetitive Unthinking Uncommunicative Pointless Did I mention boring? Pronunciation drills But drills are also physical activities that can help develop the muscular flexibility that promotes good pronunciation. Maybe. (For advice see http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/drilling-1)
Choral drills whole class or a subsection (males/females, front/back, right/left, tattoos/no tattoos, etc) Individuals at random. Students nominate. Record it. Bringing drills alive (maybe) Drills should be fast and keep learners awake. Use body language, gesture and hand-signs to show things like rhythm and elision. Don t forget intonation.
Choral and individual drilling. Choral listen and repeat: I washed my neighbour s cat. I watched my neighbour s cat. I sold all my shares. I sold all my chairs. I started a ballet dancing class. I started a belly dancing class. Types of drill: Repetition, Q&A Individual Q&A T: Last week, I watched my neighbour s cat. [S1], what did you do? S1: Last week I sold all my chairs. [S2] what did you do? S2: Last week [continues]
Substitution drills Teacher: I washedthe cat last night. Student/s: I washedthe cat last night. Types of drill: Substitution Teacher: watched Student/s: I watchedthe cat last night. Teacher: TV Student/s: I watched TVlast night. Teacher: They Student/s:They watched TV last night.
With particularly long sentence, to maintain intonation and rhythm, build it up from the end of the utterance towards the beginning: I m going to have a barbecue with my friends at the weekend. at the weekend (repeat) Types of drill: Back chaining with my friends at the weekend (repeat) to have a barbecue with my friends at the weekend (repeat) I m going to have a barbecue with my friends at the weekend (repeat) For more see http://elt-connect.com/fun-pronunciation-drills/
Pronunciation bingo Write FIVE of the words on the board on a piece of paper. earing hearing washed watched train terrain Games: Pronunciation bingo belly ballet hits heats eats mass mess It s tree three ladder letter Students take turns pulling the words from a hat and pronouncing them. As a word is said, the other students mark the square occupying that word. The game moves on like this until someone gets five and shouts bingo . Check the words!.
Students work in pairs/small groups Games: Odd one out One student faces the board/screen and reads a list of words; The other(s) identify the odd one out.
Identify the odd one out in the following sequences of words: 1) Wagged, wedged, waved, wanted, wobbled 2) Seat, meat, greet, it, feet, heat, eat 3) Bed, red, mad, fed, said, tread, led Games: Odd one out 4) Drowsy, throne, draft, dreading, drastic 5) Gesture, genetic, dynamic, justice, gymnastics
Identify the odd one out in the following sequences of words: 1) Wagged, wedged, waved, wanted, wobbled 2) Seat, meat, greet, it, feet, heat, eat Games: Odd one out 3) Bed, red, mad, fed, said, tread, led 4) Drowsy, throne, draft, dreading, drastic 5) Gesture, genetic, dynamic, justice, gymnastics
In this ESL pronunciation game, you should draw a 10 6 table and fill the random cells with words having the pronunciation sound that you want to practice. Then fill the rest of the cells with words that do not have this sound and encourage the students to connect the words with each other. The winner is the student who reaches the end of the maze first. Find your way through the maze by identifying only those words ending in /t/. Games Pronunciation Maze: Final /t/ or /d/ or / d/? Reminder: Voiced consonant and vowels: +/d/ Voiceless consonants: +/t/ Except /t/ and /d/: +/ d/
hoped granted prayed screamed taunted leaned wronged blurred ploughed drafted laughed pressed wanted centred cracked whipped divided ranged planted moved plotted arrived wished watched inverted coughed noted derived rounded explored waved blended killed excited protected patched proved cleared bridged teased handled headed targeted protected bombed passed policed called linked debated warmed ended prayed feared tackled removed focused bashed formed wrapped
hoped granted prayed screamed taunted leaned wronged blurred ploughed drafted laughed pressed wanted centred cracked whipped divided ranged planted moved plotted arrived wished watched inverted coughed noted derived rounded explored waved blended killed excited protected patched proved cleared bridged teased handled headed targeted protected bombed passed policed called linked debated warmed ended prayed feared tackled removed focused bashed formed wrapped
hoped granted prayed screamed taunted leaned wronged blurred ploughed drafted laughed pressed wanted centred cracked whipped divided ranged planted moved plotted arrived wished watched inverted coughed noted derived rounded explored waved blended killed excited protected patched proved cleared bridged teased handled headed targeted protected bombed passed policed called linked debated warmed ended prayed feared tackled removed focused bashed formed wrapped
http://blog.vipkid.com.cn/esl-pronunciation-activities/ More pronunciation games
Everything you ever need to know about jazz chants http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2011/07/28/the-best-sites- videos-for-learning-about-jazz-chants/ Jazz Chants
The King asked The Dairymaid The Queen, and She curtsied, The King`s Breakfast by AA Milne The Queen asked And went and told the Alderney: The Dairymaid: "Don't forget the butter for "Could we have some butter for The Royal slice of bread." The Royal slice of bread?" The Queen asked the Dairymaid, The Alderney said sleepily: http://wonderingminstrels.blog spot.com.br/2000/09/king- breakfast-a-milne.html The Dairymaid "You'd better tell Said, "Certainly, His Majesty http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=ye2uBSqGDjo I'll go and tell the cow That many people nowadays Now Like marmalade Before she goes to bed." Instead."
The Kingasked The Dairymaid The Queen, and She curtsied, The King`s Breakfast by AA Milne The Queenasked And wentand told the Alderney: The Dairymaid: "Don't forget the butter for "Couldwe have some butter for The Royal slice of bread." The Royal slice of bread?" The Queenasked the Dairymaid, The Alderney said sleepily: http://wonderingminstrels.blog spot.com.br/2000/09/king- breakfast-a-milne.html The Dairymaid "You'd better tell Said, "Certainly, His Majesty http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=ye2uBSqGDjo I'll goand tell the cow That many people nowadays Now Like marmalade Before she goes to bed." Instead."
Inglanis a bitch Inglanis a bitch The pronunciation of World English: w'enmi jus' come to Landan toun mi use to work pan di andahgroun but workin' pan di andahgroun y'udon't get fi know your way aroun' Linton Kwezi Johnson s Inglan is a bitch Inglanis a bitch dere's no escapinit Inglanis a bitch dere's no runnin' whey fram it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq9OpJYck7Y
Inglanis a bitch Inglanis a bitch The pronunciation of World English: w'enmi jus' come to Landan toun mi use to work pan di andahgroun but workin' pan di andahgroun y'u don't get fi know your way aroun' Linton Kwezi Johnson s Inglan is a bitch Inglanis a bitch dere's no escapinit Inglanis a bitch dere's no runnin' whey fram it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq9OpJYck7Y
The teachers challenge is to turn phonetic and phonological knowledge into classroom activities. These, as we have seen, fall into the categories of: Awareness activities Drills Games Drama/performance activities Summing up We will focus more on drama/performance next week How useful have you found pronunciation activities yourself as a learner? What is the ideal place of pronunciation in the curriculum?
