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A Study on Teaching English Pronunciatio
3.2.6. Tongue Twisters
Using tongue twisters can be a fun and useful way for children to improve the articulation of English sounds (e.g. Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry) (Celce-Murcia et al., 1996: 9). 3.2.7. Games Games are excellent tools for teaching pronunciation to children. As Brewster et al. claim, “they are not only motivating and fun but can also provide excellent practice for improving pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and the four language skills ” (Brewster et al., 2002: 172). When children play games, they use repeatedly the same language structures that they eventually memorise. In this respect, Opal Dunn argues: “once a child has memorised some prefabricated language, he has a feeling he can speak a lot of English” (Dunn, 1983: 5). Some games that teachers can use with young learners in order to improve their pronunciation are: Phonetic Bingo (Harmer, 2001), Hangman (Celce-Murcia et al., 1996), Dominoes (Celce-Murcia et al., 1996), Phonetic Memory (Simionato, 2004), Phonetic Tombola (Raffle) (Simionato, 2004) and Phonopoly (Simionato, 2004). 24 4. Italian Learners As already mentioned in Chapter 2, cross-linguistic transfer might cause pronunciation problems. In order to investigate the influence of a speaker’s native tongue on their pronunciation of another language and describe any potential problems, it is fundamental to compare the systems of the two languages. The following sections concern various aspects of pronunciation. Each section introduces the main differences between English and Italian and presents the difficulties that Italian learners of English may have (Duguid, 2001). In Canepari (2011) it is possible to find a more detailed description of these phenomena. The decision to compare Italian with Standard British English, and not with other English varieties, is due to the fact that Received Pronunciation is generally the model of English pronunciation used in Italy. Download 1.09 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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