Foreign language faculty, 11. 6chi. 20 group student Murodova Marjona Critical review of an article

Foreign language faculty, 11.6chi.20 group
student Murodova Marjona
Critical review of an article.
I choose article about How can EFL Teachers Help EFL Learners Improve Their English Pronunciation? Written by Narjes Banou Sabouri, Department of Linguistics. In this article the author talks about the term pronunciation, state the aspects of English pronunciation, elaborate the reason of integrating pronunciation in EFL classes, express techniques for teaching English pronunciation, and mention implications for the learning and teaching of English pronunciation. This article firstly emphasized the importance of English pronunciation for learners. The aim of teaching pronunciation to learners is not to ask them to pronounce like native speakers. Many learners who taught English as a foreign language (EFL) or a second language (ESL) seek to master native- like pronunciation, and want to speak English accurately and fluently.
This article addresses the factors that affect native like pronunciation in ESL and ESL situations. It firstly emphasizes the importance of pronunciation, and reviews some research and theories that are relevant to pronunciation. According to Penny Ur, the goal of pronunciation is not to obtain a complete mimicry of native accent but to make the learner to pronouns correctly to be understandable to other speakers.
As a reader this article, it became clear that the importance of pronunciation was emphasized by many learners, teachers, and researchers, but it should be noted that language learners always have some difficulties with pronunciation. A lot of researchers from various perspectives, such as physiology and linguistics. For example, according to Pourhosein Gilakjani (2012) and Yates and Zielinski (2009), pronunciation is the way of producing the sounds that are used to make meaning when speakers speak. It involves consonants and vowels of a language, features of speech beyond the level of the individual segments, like stress, timing, rhythm, intonation, phrasing, and how the voice is described. All of the above parts work together when speakers talk so that problems in one part can influence on the other and this can make a person`s pronunciation easy or difficult to comprehend.
To conclude, after reading this article, I realized that pronunciation is one of the significant aspects of foreign language teaching; also it is a very serious task. It must be borne in mind that teachers are the models for their students. So, first of all, they should have good pronunciation; otherwise, they can mislead their students. Therefore the teacher should be spend some time on teaching pronunciation. Teachers should help students set up an appropriate goal of pronunciation and try to improve their learning motivation, and this will be an important part in language teaching.