Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y TecnologĂa
Final Project E-Magazine Teaching Pronunciation
Mariam GutiĂŠrrez Campos
December 11th, 2016
Content
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Pronunciation
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Timeline
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Glossary of terms
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Sound Bingo
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Project I
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Crossword
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Intonation, stress‌
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The importance of consonant and vowels
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Project II
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Keys to teach pronunciation
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Pronunciation
1. How is the course organized? The course is working in the flipped methodology. This methodology works in order to put in practice the theory and not only read/write in the lessons. Students also have to review different chapters about the topic and prepare different generative questions and made question if they have some doubts about it. This type the method help students to be prepare in order to give a class in the future and to know different dynamic and motivational activities. 2. Define what pronunciation is and its importance in learning a language. Pronunciation is the production of the sound for different words when students are talking in a second language to expression and gestures. Pronunciation is connecting with phonetic and phonology and they are important when people are learning a second language; because is necessary to have an excellent performance. When learners are learning a second language pronunciations, it will be the most difficult part in the process that they´ve been. It is awesome when people are talking in a second language and they have an excellent pronunciation because it is critical to have exceptional articulation. 3. What aspects are important in teaching pronunciation? In order to teach a pronunciation of a second language, professor needs to consider some important aspects in their students. Educators have to consider aspects like the age of their students, especially if they are working with different groups at the same time, the intonation also is necessary to analysis in order to learn and teach correctly the 1
pronunciation of a second language. Finally, it is important to know if our students are native speakers or not, usually native speakers have an excellent pronunciation but people always need to practice and improve their skills. 4. What aspects should a teacher take into consideration when teaching pronunciation?
Intonation
Articulation
Stress
Tone of the voice
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Glossary of Terms Voicing: States if the vocal cords are vibrating or not. Voiced: When the vocal cords vibrate. Voiceless: When the vocal cords do not vibrate. Place of Articulation: Where the sound is made, the air passes through different parts of the mouth. Oral Cavity: Is the mouth. Nasal Passage: Conformed by the nose. Articulator: The organ that moves to produce a sound. Tip and The Blade: The front of the tongue. Bilabial: Denoting a speech sound articulated using both lips. Labiodental: Sound articulated with the lower lip touching the upper front teeth. Dental: Place of articulation produced with the tongue tip on or near the inner surface of the upper teeth. Alveolar: Place of articulation made with the tongue tip on or near the tooth bridge. Palatal: Place of articulation produced with the tongue blade or body near the hard palate. Velar: Place of articulation made with the tongue body on or near the soft palate.
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Glottal: Place of articulation produced by air passing from the windpipe through the vocal cords. Stop: When the airstream is blocked completely before its release. Fricative: It is audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract. Affricate: It is a combination of sounds of a stop and a fricative. Liquid: It is a frictionless speech sound pronounced with only a partial obstruction of the breath stream and whose utterance can be prolonged as that of a vowel Glide: A speech sound having the characteristics of both a consonant and a vowel.
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Game Instructions: Give each student a bingo template ! Shows the list of sounds.
Each player must choose eight different sounds (on the list) and fill your bingo.
The moderator of the game, will be responsible for shuffling the cards and sing
bingo (one card at a time.) Bingo template Before starting the game, players and the moderator should select the mode of bingo, for example: full board, lines (vertical and horizontal), four corners, letter L, O, U.
The winner is the player who completes their first bingo game depending on the mode and yell "Bingo".
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Bingo Cards
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List of sounds
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Project I
Instructions: 1. Create four groups with 6 members each one. 2. Students have to pull the roulette to obtain a consonant. 3. Then they have to create a sentence with the correct use of the consonant (each correct sentences is 10 points) 4. The group has 30 seconds to collaborate with the participant in this moment. 5. The group to obtain more points is the winner.
Note: The correct pronunciation of the consonant plays the most important role in the game.
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ʤ
Ʒ
ʃ
k
θ ɳ
m
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Objectives: 1. Practice the pronunciation of different consonants according the consonant chart. 2. Identify the correct intonation for each word. 3. Create sentences with the correct grammar structure. 4. Identify the correct consonant in order to transcribe words.
Justification: ď ś Students are be able to recognize the different consonants and how they have to use them. It is important because it is necessary to know the knowledge about what are the consonant and vowels in pronunciation and what the correct intonation for each one is. The best way to understand it is practice and practice; why? Because the majority of the students when there are learning, they usually memorize the word and how the professor pronounced it. They do not have idea if the pronunciation are correct (in this case, it supposed that is correct) and it is important to handle it.
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Crossword
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Answers 1. Coloring 2. Nasalized 3. Lax Vowel 4. Diphthongs 5. Open Syllables 6. Glide 7. Tense Vowels 8. Sonorant 9. Reduced Form 10. Simple Vowels 11. Citation form 12. Vowel 13. Reduced vowel 13
Intonation, stress ‌ Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran
When your legs don't work like they used to before And I can't sweep you off of your feet Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks
And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70 And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23 And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways Maybe just the touch of a hand Oh me I fall in love with you every single day And I just wanna tell you I am
So, honey now Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Place your head on my beating heart I'm thinking out loud Maybe we found love right where we are
When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades And the crowds don't remember my name When my hands don't play the strings the same way, mm I know you will still love me the same
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'Cause honey your soul can never grow old, it's evergreen Baby your smile's forever in my mind and memory I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways Maybe it's all part of a plan I'll just keep on making the same mistakes Hoping that you'll understand
But baby now Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Place your head on my beating heart I'm thinking out loud That maybe we found love right where we are, oh
So, baby now Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Oh darling, place your head on my beating heart I'm thinking out loud That maybe we found love right where we are Oh maybe we found love right where we are And we found love right where we are
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Stress Contractions Linking Deletion
Assimilation
Blends Dissimilation: -----Epenthesis: ------
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The importance of consonants and vowels. 1. In your opinion, what contributes more to a learner´s intelligibility- accuracy of consonant and vowel sounds or command of stress, rhythm and adjustments in connected speech? In the process to learn a second language, the pronunciation is a really important aspect to consider; for this reason in my opinion accuracy of consonant and vowel sounds are a useful contribution for learners. It is important to have excellent pronunciation of the words if you are a learner because it reflect that you have the interest to learn it. If we have a good pronunciation of the consonants and vowels, we can to communicate in the correct way with the other people. The communication and practice are the most useful methods to learn and practice our speech and pronunciation. The practice of the speech help the students because it gives students confidence in the process to express what they are thinking. It is an important part of every day of students because they have to different words and how they have to pronounce that. The pronunciation of native speakers are different of the foreign learners. Consonant accuracy according to Murcia, C; Brinton, D. & Goodwing, J. (2010), “… alphabet we are using in this text actually phonemic (with some phonetic enhancements), we refer to it as a phonemic alphabet” so, like they mention the phoneme of the word is an important part to learn and teach a second language; especially if it has difficult words and pronunciation. It is important to recognize how we can transcribe the words in order to be easier the pronunciation of them. I is really useful because the students can improve and look how they have to pronounce in the correct way the words. For those reason consonant
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accuracy and vowels sounds are the most important and useful aspect to consider in the process to learn a second language; especially the speaking part. Every skills are important in order to achieve the goal to learn a foreign language. Consonant accuracy and vowels sound are including in two of the skills in English, in speaking and listening; why? Because in speaking students have to know how pronounce the words correctly and in listening, because they practice and tuned their hears. Listening is important and necessary because educators as guide for students have to give them some practice to turn this skill, because it is one of the weakest skill in English. On the other hand, speaking is the most difficult one in order to learn a second language. Reference Celce-Murcia; M.; Brinton, D. & Goodwing, J. (2010). Teaching Pronunciation: A course book and reference guide (2 Ed.). New York, USA: Cambridge University Press.
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Project # 2
Pronunciation Activity Word Stress
Mariam Gutiérrez / Laura Valverde
• Objectives • Practice intonation • Identify the stress in each word • Recall the schwa sound • Remember one syllable words
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Description of the Activity The activity is meant to reinforce the common mistake of placing the stress in the wrong syllable. The teacher will make two charts on the board. One for each team. It would have 5 columns, at the top of each column is written from 1 to 3 syllable, the fourth one is for single syllable word sound and the last one for schwa sound. The group will be divided in two, each team need to make a line that way each member has the chance to participate. Then, in the board the students will be provided with a list of words. They need to identify in which syllable is the stress and write the word in the correct column of the chart. The first group in finishing all the words wins.
Procedures • Make the charts on the board • Divide the group in two teams • Classify the words according to the stress sound
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Materials
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Answers
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Keys to teach pronunciation
Make a list of 10 teaching tips for a teacher whom has to teach this topic. Gives more examples for each topic. Emotion, actin or express when you are saying the word with the intonation Make the examples according to the age of students Uses songs in the classroom Read aloud Conversation and dialogues (speech’s) Movies with subtitles in English Technology cartoon to listen the correct intonation for the word Diagrams
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