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Revised 30Jul2007 Page 1 Jane Setter

UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics, 2007

Teaching Pronunciation:How can teachers help learners improve their English speech?

Dr Jane SetterUniversity of ReadingJoint Co-ordinator, IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest [email protected]

Main points:

Keep consonants clear

Work on consonant clusters

Work on problem vowel qualities

Make vowels in stressed syllables stand out more than those in unstressedsyllables

Make sure the nucleus is placed appropriately

Too manyfalling tones can make you sound impolite (i.e., falling tones are fine ifused appropriately)

Incorporate pronunciation work into all aspects of language teaching and learning

LEARN TO LISTEN to patterns of English

Bibliography

This is a selection of publications specifically concerning English pronunciation

teaching. Others are available. Some items are for students and some for teachers.

For students (some are pronunciation practice and some more generally aboutphonetics)

Bradford, Barbara. 1988. Intonation in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress.

Brazil, David. 1994. Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

Collins, Beverley & Mees, Inger. 2003. Practical Phonetics and Phonology: AResource Book for Students. London & New York: Routledge.

Gilbert, Judy. 2005. Clear Speech: Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension inNorth American English. 3rd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hancock, Mark. 2003. English Pronunciation in Use. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.

Hancock, Mark. 1995. Pronunciation Games. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress.

Hewings, Martin. 2007. English Pronunciation in Use (Advanced). Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

Hewings, Martin. 2004. Pronunciation Practice Activities. Cambridge: Cambridge


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University Press.Hewings, Martin. 1993. Pronunciation Tasks: A Course for Pre-Intermediate

Learners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Jordan, Marianne. 2004. Phonetics for Learners of English Pronunciation. 2nd

Edition. Malahide, Co Dublin: Celtic Publications.

Kenworthy, Joanne. 2000. The Pronunciation of English: A Workbook. London:Arnold.

Kreidler, Charles W. 2004. The Pronunciation of English: A Course Book inPhonology. 2nd Edition. Oxford and New York: Blackwell.

Lecumberri, M. Luisa Garcia & Maidment, John A. 2000. English TranscriptionCourse. London: Arnold.

Marks, Jonathan. 2007. English Pronunciation in Use (Elementary). Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

OConnor, J. D. & Arnold, Gordon F. 1973. Intonation of Colloquial English. London:Longman.

OConnor, J. D. & Fletcher, Clare. 1989. Sounds English: a pronunciation practicebook. London: Longman.

Roach, Peter J. 2000. English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course. 3rdEdition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Roach, Peter, Hartman, James and Setter, Jane. (Eds.) 2006. Daniel JonesEnglish Pronouncing Dictionary. 17th Edition. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.

Wells, John C. 2006. English Intonation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

For teachers

Brazil, David, Coulthard, Malcolm & Johns, Catherine. 1980. Discourse Intonationand Language Teaching. Harlow: Longman.

Celce-Murcia, Marianne, Brinton, Donna M. & Goodwin, Janet M. 1996. TeachingPronunciation: A Reference for Teachers of English to Speakers of OtherLanguages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chun, Dorothy M. 2002. Discourse Intonation in L2: From Theory and Research toPractice. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Cruttenden, Alan (Ed.). 2001. Gimsons Pronunciation of English. 6th Edition.London: Arnold.

Dalton, Cristiane & Seidlhofer, Barbara. 1994. Pronunciation. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.

Jenkins, Jennifer. 2000. The Phonology of English as an International Language.Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kelly, Gerald. 2000. How to Teach Pronunciation. London: Longman.Kenworthy, Joanne. 1987. Teaching English Pronunciation. London: Longman.Levis, John M. 2001. Teaching Focus for Conversational Use. ELT Journal. 55/1, 47-

54.McCarthy, Michael. 1991. Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.Tench, Paul. 1990. The Roles of Intonation in English Discourse. Frankfurt am Main:

Peter Lang.Thompson, Susan. 1995. Teaching Intonation on Questions. ELT Journal. 49/3, 235-


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243.Walker, R. 2001. Pronunciation priorities, the Lingua Franca Core, and monolingual

groups. Speak Out!18: 4-9.Wennerstrom, Ann. 2001. The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse

Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Underhill, Adrian. 2005. Sound Foundations. 2nd

Edition. Oxford: Macmillan.

and of courseSpeak Out! The newsletter of the IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group.

WebsitesHere are some websites you might find useful:

http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/contents.html this rather long address leads to Peter Ladefogeds pagesrelated to his book Vowels and Consonants(see above). If you follow the first

link it leads you to a clickable IPA chart (see Appendix 1).http://wtt.org.uk Web Transcription Tool, an online phonemic transcription

programme which gives you feedback if your transcriptions have errors.http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/staff/tench/tswords.html Transcribing English Words by

Paul Tench of Cardiff University.http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ Professor John Wells homepage is full of

interesting things, from papers on RP and lecture handouts to downloadablefonts and his own blog.

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/index.html the resources page at UCLsDepartment of Phonetic and Linguistics. Go here to find links to TONI andPLATO.

http://www.phonmap.com/ leads to an easy to use, freely downloadableprogramme which allows you to insert phonetic symbols into your documents.Others will also need this programme to be able to read softcopy.

http://www.speechinaction.com Richard Cauldwells site for his Streaming Speechmaterials.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/ the University of Iowas Sounds ofLanguages page.

http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/phonology.htm Andrew Mooresintroduction to English phonology, which is part of his excellent site ofresources for British teachers. Well worth a visit.

Want to get involved with the International English pronunciation teachingcommunity? For more information on how to join IATEFL and the PronunciationSpecial Interest Group, see: http://www.iatefl.org .

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