TEACHING PRONUNCIATION

USING ONLINE RESOURCES

JAY YUN
 AUTHORS

• Jenelle Cox
- A graduate student in the TESOL MA
program at Brigham Young University
- She is currently teaching Listening/
Speaking to advanced ESL students at
the English Language Center 
• Lynn Henrichsen
- A professor at Brigham Young
University
 INTRODUCTION

• Benefit of a pronunciation course

(Henrichsen&Stephens, 2015).
1) Enhanced awareness of their own
pronunciation weaknesses,
2) Refined listening skill
3) Personal tools to improve their
pronunciation throughout their lives.
 PROBLEMS

• The reason why pronunciation teaching is not given

adequate attention
1) Some teachers don’t feel it is a necessary or fundamental skill when compared
to other language skills.
Vs Students feel the need to learn pronunciation (Grim & Sturm, 2016).
2) Teachers often don’t feel qualified to teach pronunciation due to insufficient
training. (time constraint) (Derwing, Diepenbroke, & Foote, 2012)

As a result,
ÞStudents are left on their own.
ÞStudents tend to perceive segmentals, rather than
suprasegmentals. (But, Suprasegmentals have been shown to
be the most beneficial
 POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

1) Pronunciation pedagogy needs to become part of

ESL teacher preparation curricula.

2) Utilizing Existing materials to overcome time constraints

www.Englishpronunciationguide.weebly.com
: Use existing ESL-pronunciation videos online focusing
on videos that show teachers how to teach
pronunciation.
ENGLISHPRONUNCIATIONGUIDE. WEEBLY.COM
• Purpose: This website is designed
1) to use these resources to educate teachers themselves
2) to help teachers quickly access existing pronunciation-teaching videos online
• Selection:
Chose 67 among over 300.
* Criteria:
  1) Whether the resources show teachers how to teach pronunciation to students
2) The highest functional load (Catford, 1987)
3) English pronunciation where improvements produce the greatest gains in
intelligibility (Avery & Ehlrich, 1992).
  4) Videos that addressed the widely recognized pronunciation difficulties 
 1. Notice students’ need

2. Go to website
www.englishpronunciationguide.weebly.com.
APPLICATION 3. Choose  the “Segmentals” or
FOR “Suprasegmentals” section
TEACHERS
4. View and learn from the videos

5. Practice and prepare their own lessons.

6. Implement their lessons in the classroom

with creativity.