Teaching pronunciation

Importance of teaching pronunciation

It helps pupils overcome that arise from the -1
interference of the mother tongue
It helps pupils identify and discriminate English -2
.sounds
Pronunciation is the main thing to start with in
order to teach English as a foreign language.
Comment
Teacher is like an orchestra leader, conducting,
guiding, and controlling the students' behavior in
the target language. Teacher should provide the
students with native speaker like model. He is
facilitator as he shows the students the correct
pronunciation of words of T.L. He helps students to
get the habit formation which helps them
pronunciation the words well. He facilities mainly
through gesture and he is director for the good
pronunciation, he gives the students the good
.model of imitation
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