Sgem 2016 Social Sciences & Arts

ACCURACY AND FLUENCY 
We often think of pronunciation teaching in terms of helping students achieve accurate 
pronunciation so that their production of sounds, stress, rhythm, and intonation begins 
to match an ideal pattern. But accuracy is only one part of good pronunciation. Fluency 
in producing sounds and other aspects of pronunciation is equally important. 
Pronunciation is one of the most important things that students must master in to 
communicate appropriately and fluently. 
Good pronunciation skills do not only bring speakers confidence to communicate but it 
also improves their listening comprehension, the basis of an accomplished conversation. 
Another important aspect in teaching pronunciation is to decide what features of 
pronunciation are crucial to be focused on.
Following Harmer teaching pronunciation of sounds, words stress, sentence stress, 
intonation and connected speech are the pronunciation areas teachers should draw their 
students’ attention to. Second-language learning requires explicit learning with repeated 
practice to commit these to long-term memory and to make access more automatic, or 
"fluent". native-like pronunciation is an inappropriate aim for most learners. Achieving 
pronunciation which is good enough for students to be always understood is one of the 
main goals of foreign language learners. 
Considering the aspects of communicative purpose of language teaching according to 
Scrivener [4] it is important to remember that no one area of skills or language systems 
exist in isolation: there can be no speaking if you don´t have the vocabulary to speak 
with, there´s no point learning words unless you can do something useful with them. 

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International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences & Art SGEM 2019 
The purpose of learning a language is usually to enable you to take part in exchanges of 
information even in pronunciation teaching. 
Teaching pronunciation should be more than just training individual sounds or isolated 
words. Therefore, in order to consolidate pronunciation skills (both comprehension and 
production), it is crucial to incorporate pronunciation activities into classroom.