Importance Of Teaching Pronunciation

Teaching Vocabulary and Pronunciation As we know the importance of speaking, especially if the issue is creating our target language shape, we as teachers need to make our learners better english speakers and, of course during this teaching process we need to be aware of their background knowledge and their language levels to be more fruitful to them. Generally to be more succesful in spoken english , we need to teach two crucial things to our learners: one of them is vocabulary another is pronunciation. Lets have a look at what they are !
1-Teaching Pronunciation In terms of what in fact pronunciation is far more than our individual sounds. Word and sentence stress, word linking, and intonation all have an impact on the sound of English we speak, not to mention the way we often slur words and phrases together in casual speech. 'What do you want to do?' changes as 'Whaddaya wanna do?' Pronunciation of english native speakers involves too many complexities for english learners to strive for a complete elimination of accent, but improving pronunciation will facilitate communication, boost self esteem, and

Answer is simple: in fact we are taught indirectly , yet sometimes we must be taught directly. The following conclusions about indirect vocabulary learning and direct vocabulary instruction are of particular interest and value to classroom teachers: Children learn the meanings of most words indirectly through everyday experiences with oral and written language. There are typically three ways children learn vocabulary indirectly. First, they participate in oral language every day. Children learn word meanings through conversations with other people, and as they participate in conversations, they often hear words repeated several times. The more conversations children have, the more word words they learn. Another, indirect way children learn words is by being read