ENTRY#2 Veronica AcuĂąa| Teaching Pronunciation
(1800-1900) Direct Method: The DM pushes the students to be able to understand the language directly without translating it. No translation is allowed. (1890) The Reform Movement: This movement was a movement that influenced a lot the teaching pronunciation. Thanks to this movement the International Phonetic Alphabet emerged. (1940- 1950) Audiolingualism and Oral approach: The Audio-Lingual Method is an oral based approach. It drills students in the use of grammatical sentence patterns. It has a strong theoretical based on linguistics and psychology (1960) Cognitive Approach: it is influenced by the transformational- generative grammar (1970) Silent way/The community Language Learning: it is characterized by the attention paid of production of both sounds and structures of the target language from the initial stage of instruction. (1980) Communicative Language: this approach is focused on language as communication brings renewed urgency to the teaching of pronunciation, since both empirical and anecdotal evidence indicates that there is a threshold level of pronunciation for nonnative speakers of English.