English Sounds
for students learning to speak English, by Merle Braithwaite
ISBN 0-473-08162-8
This practical guide to the pronunciation of English sounds will be particularly useful to teachers in their work with secondary school students and adults to whom English is a foreign language.
The aim of teaching pronunciation is to achieve what Abercrombie describes as “ comfortable intelligibility – pronunciation which can be understood with little or no conscious effort on the part of the listener”.
English Sounds focuses on:
- The strong relationship between auditory discrimination skills and pronunciation
- the use of a multi-sensory approach to teach phonemes, which cause confusion
- the use of target sounds in spontaneous speech
Recommended in the Ministry of Education publication:
English Language Intensive Programme Unit