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The reform movement
This movement was a remarkable display of international and interdisciplinary co-operation in which the specialist phoneticians. The intellectual leader of the group, Henry Sweet might in a sense be seen as the father of pronunciation teaching since it is primarily his work in the last third of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. http://teaching-training.com/esl-articles/the-recent-history-of-pronunciation-teaching-in-elt -
A new age dawns
On Harold´s Plamer book (The principles of language study ) he explains that for years past phoneticians have been busily engaged with research work.. a universal terminology is coming into existence.. a universal phonetic alphabet is well on its way.. the principles of phonetics and phonetic transcription are developing rapidly.
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The tongues of men
According to J.r. Firth ,Sounds come in and similar sounds go out. We can ourselves cause similar sounds to those we hear and also hear what we cause. The ‘roundabout’ is complete on the air, and for that reason we can run in on one another’s roundabouts and share common experience.(21) http://teaching-training.com/esl-articles/the-recent-history-of-pronunciation-teaching-in-elt(http://www.timetoast.com) -
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Accroding to J.C Catford the student is still left to ‘pick up’ some features of English without the aid of specific instruction and drill.
In other words, the acquisition of pronunciation, accurate or not, was considered a matter for the learner to deal with not the teacher. Perhaps with what we know now about the acquisition of pronunciation, this is at least half right. http://teaching-training.com/esl-articles/the-recent-history-of-pronunciation-teaching-in-elt(http://www.timetoast.com) -
Pronunciation advice
Peter MacCarthy in his 1978 publication: The Teaching of Pronunciation offers a number of reasons for ‘good’ pronunciation, amongst them: -Hesitation
-Slowness
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The Native speaker model
It utters that the exposure to a foreign language would dretae itself a native like speaker.If, as in the case of for example Grammar Translation, language is seen as a theoretical study or a means to enable further study of, for example literature, then pronunciation plays an awkward and tuneless second fiddle to the great instruments of structure, syntax and vocabulary. http://teaching-training.com/esl-articles/the-recent-history-of-pronunciation-teaching-in-elt(http://www.timetoast.com) -
Current practice
As recently as 2002, Rodney Jones (in Methodology in Language Teaching 2002, 176) notes that most current techniques and task types designed for the teaching of pronunciation continue to be based on behaviourist notions of second language learning, largely relying on imitation and discrimination drills, reading aloud and contrastive analysis of L1 and L2 sound systems.
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