[etni] Fw: Pronunciation

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:09:00 +0200
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From: byk - byk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Pronunciation

Of course you can teach pronunciation, and differenciation between the 
sounds.

For many years I taught in the Tel Aviv University language lab, and I still 
apply what I taught then to any and all ethnic groups, and a lot of fun they 
find it.

You write up on the board two columns of the problem sounds, e.g. bad/ bed, 
or, for Arabic speakers, pan/ban.

Put about 10 words in each column.  On the top of column one, you write 1, 
and on top of column two, you write 2.  You then face the class and say one 
word from one of the columns.  All the students have to take part together. 
Hands up those of  you who think the word was from column one.  Hands up for 
those who think it was column two.

After a few tries,  most of the class can hear the difference.  Then you 
turn your back. (Yes you can do it.  The pupils are all very eager.)  Now 
you do the same thing, but they have no visual clues.

Then  you go round the class getting them to pronounce the sounds.

The pupils enjoy it.  In classes where they are just learning to read, it 
reinforces reading, and the same goes for non-reader classes.

I did it at university level.

Yes, it is very important.  It helps with spelling (up to a point), and it 
reduces confusion.  No more "Why are the words man and men written 
differently, when they sound the same?"

Jennifer Byk

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