Sgem 2016 Social Sciences & Arts

MAIN PRONUNCIATION GOALS
The primary objective of our research and practical output is to find main goals to meet 
learners’ individual needs and allow them to form a positive image of themselves as 
confident speakers of a foreign language. Knowing about positive and negative 
influence of native tongue we can determine the degree of phonic approximation of the 
quality of English phonemes, vowels and consonants non-existing in mother tongue 
which can cause the most specific errors under the influence of the mother tongue in the 
English speech performance of learners. 
Wrembel in his work [1] introduced the following “goals for learners to develop their 
pronunciation and better-spoken English in second language acquisition: 
1. Functional intelligibility 
2. Developing spoken English that is easy to understand for listeners;
3. Functional communicability
4. Developing spoken language that serves communicative needs effectively; - 
increased self-confidence
5. Developing a positive self-image;
6. Speech-monitoring abilities and speech-modification strategies that will allow 
students to develop intelligibility, communicability and confidence outside the 
classroom. “

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Section Language and Linguistics 
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INTELLIGIBILITY 
Harmer [2] states that it is thanks to pronunciation teaching that students not only 
become aware of different sounds and sound features but can also improve their 
speaking immeasurably. He claims that “concentrating on sounds, showing where they 
are made in the mouth, making students aware of where words should be stressed – all 
these things give them extra information about spoken English and help them achieve 
the goal of improved comprehension and intelligibility. “
Harmer claims that the way how to achieve clear communication is not getting students 
to produce correct sounds or intonation, but it is rather the way to show them how 
English is spoken in the real world. The more students get exposed to the world of real 
communication, listening, and watching audio or videotape materials, the greater 
opportunities that their intelligibility get improved. 
According to Kenworthy [3] the appropriate objective for positive assessment of the 
correct pronunciation of English learners is intelligibility. The word "understandable" 
means "the ability of the listener to identify the words of a particular speaker, the more 
the words identify the listener hears, the more intelligible the speaker, the listener listens 
to another word or phrase, is able to understand the speaker even though he does not use 
the exact same sound as the native speaker. The clarity can be influenced by various 
factors, such as self-correction, grammatical restructuring, speech speed, verbal accent, 
rhythm, intonation, conversation ".