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Pronunciation & Phonology are fundamental structures and should be considered indispensable for teaching &learning a new language.
English has lot of variants when it comes to words with similar spellings & structure.Most of them either don’t rhyme or are pronounced
quite differently.This could probably be difficult for non-natives to emphasise correct pronunciation as they are not familiar with the
language.
IPA has taken the edge off this difficulty as the phonemes deal with sounds rather than words & spellings.Each phonem representing a
single sound. We can use charts,symbols ,transcriptions & fonts to discover speech.Moreover, there are many other aspects such as
sentence and word stress, intonation patterns that are relevant to precise understanding & production of language
Intonation patterns such as fall/rise, rise/fall & flat guide us about the intentions such as certainity,question or finality of the speaker
whereas stress makes it sound more natural and fluent.
We can teach all this by various methods such as speaking non-sense words with emotions followed by real sentences,gestures
indicating pitch & rhythm of the sentence,clapping etc.
Teaching manner of articulation is also important & can be done through various mouth diagrams and audio examples of
individual speech. For teaching place of articulation we can use x-ray diagrams,anatomical charts and animated videos
clear and interesting.
