Tips for Teaching Pronunciation: A Practical Approach (with Audio CD)
Tips for Teaching Pronunciationshows English language teachers how to teach the North American sound system.  This practical reference book provides practical tips, clear explanations, diagrams, and sample classroom activities.   Each chapter covers one of the five main areas of pronunciation -- vowels, consonants, stress, rhythm, and intonation. The companion audio CD in the text provides listening material for select activities. Features:What the teacher should knowsections set the scene with pedagogical research.Concrete tipsprovide practical classroom suggestions for teaching vowels, consonants, stress, rhythm, and intonation.Sections onSpecific Features in each chapter cover common pronunciation problems that teachers find challenging.Sample activitiesfor Specific Feature exemplify how to implement the tips.Practical suggestionsshow how tointegrate pronunciationwith other skill areas.Clear diagramsdemonstrate how to articulate vowels and consonants.Extensive descriptions help teachers prepare forpronunciation problemscommon tospecific languages groups.Photocopiable diagnostic testandhandoutscan be used in class with minimal preparation.Audio CDprovides listening material for select activities.TheTips for Teachingseries covers topics of practical classroom-centered interest for English language teachers. Written in clearly comprehensible terms, each book offers soundly conceived practical approaches to classroom instruction that are firmly grounded in current pedagogical research. See also:Tips for Teaching with CALL: Practical Approaches to Computer-Assisted Language Learning