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Observation and testing are the main methods of learning linguistic competency


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NEW APPROACHES TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

2.Observation and testing are the main methods of learning linguistic competency.
”. First, the teacher teaches the phonetic transcription and practices the sounds. Then, he dictates meaningless words with sounds he wants to train. The pupil write what they think they hear by means of phonetic system. When they make a mistake the teacher repeats the word as he originally pronounced it and then in the way written by the pupils. He repeats the two pronunciations a number of times until the pupils hear clearly the nature of the mistake. Such ear-training classes were meant to help students in hearing the language and have impact on the acoustic impression in their memory by means of repetition. We emphasize an overview of the time — tested (or “traditional”) classroom techniques and newer techniques that have been used to teach pronunciation. The teachers repertoire by providing an overview of newer techniques and resources available to teachers of second language pronunciation.
Laborious theoretical explanations should not be extensively used. Instead, short practical advice for the position of lips, tongue, the opening between the jaws etc. Should be given. In the teaching of sounds comparing them to the sounds of the mother tongue will help students realize what is similar or what is different and also what is peculiar in the English sounds. Dictionaries of English pronunciation are of great help to the teacher and student alike in learning the sounds. Explanation on the pronunciation with diagrams and phonetic transcriptions are to be found in such dictionaries. Perhaps one of the best is Daniel Jones' English Pronouncing Dictionary, which records with great accuracy the pronunciation. However, the pronunciation represented in this dictionary is that used in Southern England or heard on BBC. Also the most comprehensive and detailed work concerning pronunciation significantly from the point of view of the foreign learner is Daniel Jones “An Outline Of English Phonetics”. This extensive work covers in detail every item concerning pronunciation, the organs of speech, experimental methods, breath and voice, stress, intonation. It contains a minute \
description on how to learn vowels and consonants along with a list of illustrations on organs of speech, tongue position and lip-position. That can be of a great help to the teacher. As it concerns the phonetic transcription, Jones defines it as a clear and simple system of representing pronunciation by means of writing [2,67]. The phonetic symbols will be a precious aid for the pupils in the correct pronunciation of the words. The students should acquire the phonetic transcription to the extent that it helps them to use dictionaries. In class when the students are able to utter the sound and know its phonetic representation the sound, the teacher then arranges and presents the sounds in simple monosyllabic words and uttered repeatedly in unison and also individually. In some schools half of a century ago in Uzbekistan English class-training courses were held for acquisition of sounds before starting the language teaching. Such courses had very good results because the method used for training the auditory memory consisted in “nonsense dictation”. First, the teacher teaches the phonetic transcription and practices the sounds. Then, he dictates meaningless words with sounds he wants to train. The pupil write what they think they hear by means of phonetic system. When they make a mistake the teacher repeats the word as he originally pronounced it and then in the way written by the pupils. He repeats the two pronunciations a number of times until the pupils hear clearly the nature of the mistake. Such ear-training classes were meant to help students in hearing the language and have impact on the acoustic impression in their memory by means of repetition. We emphasize an overview of the time — tested (or “traditional”) classroom techniques and newer techniques that have been used to teach pronunciation. The teachers repertoire by providing an overview of newer techniques and resources available to teachers of second language pronunciation.

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