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This unit covered the teaching of pronunciation and phonology. Phonology is the study of the physical properties of sounds such as: stress, rhythm, and intonation. Intonation is very important to a student wants to sound natural. I think the most helpful technique for teaching intonation is humming because the student can hear intonation in isolation without having to worry about producing the correct sounds or meaning behind the sentence. Stress helps in understanding the meaning behind the sentence and so this is another area that I wish my students to have regular exposure. Articulation emphasizes the physical production of sound and it was helpful for me to think about where air and sound if coming from and how my mouth manipulates it to produce sound. I think articulation would be the hardest part to teach, especially the science behind the sound and I hope to do a lot of drilling with this part of pronunciation. In the future I would want to spend only a portion of a lesson on pronunciation because I worry I would not be able to hold my student's attention for an entire class period of pronunciation.
