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This chapter was very long and was about teaching pronunciation and phonology: things like stress, intonation, sound joining, articulation (manner and place), and their respective teaching techniques. We were taught the phonemic alphabet as well as research on the science of sound creation. The video showed us how to teach the phonemic alphabet and it focused primarily on eight confusing phoneme symbols. There was a massive amount of material. I learned a lot but I cannot subscribe to these elements as being an integral part to teaching ESL. I would choose to give an overview of this material to students and probably use the 'as and when required' approach to teaching pronunciation but I would focus on exposure and practice [of the natural pronunciation of language rather than this petri dish approach]. The teacher in the video was a very good teacher to watch in terms of how to present a lesson and follow through [eggcellent teacher] but much of the content left a lot to be desired. For example, if my memory serves me correctly, at around minute 41-42 she broke down the word 'singer' to a number of syllables. She said: "s" + "i" + "n" + "ger". Then a moment later, after a student repeated that . . . the teacher said: "no, there is no 'g' sound in that." But the teacher had just thems elves said 'ger' . .. which does have a 'g' sound in it. Same for the 'ng' sound. She said you should pronounce 'singer' like 'sinner' when in fact, good english pronunciation does not sound out the word 'sinner' exactly like "singer" . . . as she modeled . . . but . . . there is a tiny distinction in 'singer' where a tiny 'g' sound is in fact articulated as a labiodentalalveolarvelarglottal gutteral. Thank you!
