Check Out These Great New Resource Books on Pronunciation!
Tips for Teaching Pronunciation: A Practical ApproachLinda Lane Series Editor: H. Douglas Brown
Tips for Teaching Pronunciation shows English language teachers how to teach the North American sounds system. This practical reference book provides clear explanations, diagrams, and sample classroom activities designed to help teachers solve their students' pronunication problems. Each chapter covers one of the five main areas of pronunciation-- stress, rhythm, intonation, consonants, and vowels. The companion CD provides audio for sample activities in each chapter.
Features:
- What the teacher should know sections set the scene with pedagogocal research
- Concrete tips provide practical classroom suggestions on how to teach pronunciation
- Sections on specific features in each chapter cover common pronunciation problems, such as contrasting /r/ and /l/ and contrasting /iy/ and /I/.
- Sample activities for specific features provide practical classroom techniques for implementing the tips
- Extensive descriptions help teachers prepare for pronunication problems common to specific language groups
- 1,000,000 additional example sentences from books and newspapers
- Photocopiable diagnostic test and worksheets can be used in class with minimal preparation
- An audio CD provides listening material for select activities
Teaching Pronunciation 2nd Edition Marianne Celce-Murcia, University of California, Los Angeles Donna Brinton, University of Southern California
Janet Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles
With Barry Griner, University of Southern California
The second edition includes updates and insights on current research and pedagogical practice that have developed over the last decade.
This new edition of Teaching Pronunciation - undoubtedly the gold standard for pronunciation methodology texts – has been revised to reflect recent research into the sound system of North American English, as well as new practices in pronunciation pedagogy. Audio CDs with additional examples are now packaged with the book.
Take a look below for more great resources on pronunciation!
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| 1. Clear Speech Series |  |
Clear Speech, Third Edition is a highly successful and innovative pronunciation text for intermediate to high-intermediate students of English. It focuses on those features of English pronunciation that contribute the most to intelligibility—rhythm, stress, and intonation—as well as on individual speech sounds that carry important grammatical meaning, such as the plural "s" for nouns and past-tense "d" for verbs.
This new edition provides learners with visual representations of important pronunciation features, such as voicing and syllable length. It also includes a greater emphasis on listening recognition, expanded coverage of vowel sounds, and a new appendix with additional exercises for students from different language backgrounds and advanced exercises for higher-level classes. The Student's Book contains an audio CD, so students can practice many of the exercises on their own.
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| 2. English Pronunciation Made Simple |  | With a friendly writing style and abundant illustrations, Pronunciation Made Simple formerly English Pronunciation for International Students
helps students understand and achieve the pronunciation patterns of
native English speakers. Appropriate for both classroom use and
self-study, this confidence-building text motivates students to
practice their skills outside the classroom. - Includes separate sections on vowels, consonants, stress, rhythm and intonation.
- Practical hints help students use spelling patterns as a guide to correct pronunciation.
- Abundant mouth illustrations and examples show how to produce sounds correctly.
- Free audio CDs include all the listening-based self-test exercises in the student book.
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| 3. Focus on Pronunciation Series |  | | Focus on Pronunciation is an
expanded three-book series giving beginning, intermediate, or advanced
students the tools, tips, and techniques needed to speak English
clearly and accurately. It contains a variety of fun learning
activities that cover all aspects of pronunciation - sounds, stress,
rhythm, and intonation. |
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This user-friendly three-book series gives
students all the tools, tips, and techniques they need to speak English
clearly and accurately. All aspects of pronunciation are addressed –
sounds, stress, rhythm, and intonation – and the variety of activities
and accessible style make learning fun. - The flexible unit structure of each book allows the material to be customized for groups or individuals.
- Clear explanations and diagrams.
- Focused practice and activities include surveys, games, and
high-interest listening and speaking tasks to guide students from
controlled practice to communicative interaction.
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| 4. Pronounce It Perfectly in English w/Audio CDs |  | ESL students, TOEFL and TOEIC test takers, and all others for whom English is a second language and who want to improve their pronunciation will find this book and compact disc combination especially instructive. The new second edition presents a significantly increased number of exercises, all of them providing practice in every sound that is specific to American-style English. Emphasis is on stress and intonation patterns in conversational English. Recognition of these patterns is essential to fluent speech and listening comprehension. Four compact discs replace the first edition’s audiocassettes, and have been increased by 50 minutes in playing time to a total of 5 hours and 20 minutes. |
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| 5. Pronunciation Pairs, 2e New! |  | Beginner to Elementary, Pre-intermediate
Pronunciation Pairs is a classic listening and pronunciation text that
teaches students to recognize and produce all of the speech sounds of
North American English. It also covers important features such as word
and sentence stress, and intonation. |
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| 6. Pronunciation Plus |  | Pronunciation Plus helps intermediate-level students of North American
English improve their pronunciation through a variety of stimulating
listening and speaking tasks that address all the important topics in
English pronunciation: individual speech sounds, sounds in connected
speech, stress, rhythm, intonation, and spelling. Nearly half of these
tasks are done with a partner or in small groups, giving students
opportunities to interact with their classmates while practicing their
pronunciation. There is an emphasis on communicative activities that
allow students to talk about and explore aspects of everyday life as
they learn. The book contains 60 short, manageable units, each one
focusing on a discrete topic in pronunciation, or pronouncing unstressed syllables. The units can be taught in
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| 8. Well Said - Pronunciation for Clear Communication 3e New! |  | Offering a lively and communicative approach to increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said, 2nd Edition improves students' speech intelligibility and confidence in communicating in social, academic, business, and professional settings.
- Students practice the most common challenges in sound/spelling patterns, syllables, word endings, linking, stress, rhythm, and intonation.
- Learner-centered and interactive activities progress from controlled practice to relevant, natural communicative contexts.
- New activities help students take their studies beyond the classroom and interact with native speakers.
- Readings, questionnaires, surveys, and interviews provide students with practical situations.
- Useful appendixes provide an overview of consonants and vowels, and offer intensive practice with the more troublesome sounds.
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| 10. Tips for Teaching Pronunciation: A Practical Approach |  | Linda Lane Series Editor: H. Douglas Brown
Tips for Teaching Pronunciation shows English language teachers how to teach the North American sounds system. This practical reference book provides clear explanations, diagrams, and sample classroom activities designed to help teachers solve their students' pronunication problems. Each chapter covers one of the five main areas of pronunciation-- stress, rhythm, intonation, consonants, and vowels. The companion CD provides audio for sample activities in each chapter.
Features:
- What the teacher should know sections set the scene with pedagogocal research
- Concrete tips provide practical classroom suggestions on how to teach pronunciation
- Sections on specific features in each chapter cover common pronunciation problems, such as contrasting /r/ and /l/ and contrasting /iy/ and /I/.
- Sample activities for specific features provide practical classroom techniques for implementing the tips
- Extensive descriptions help teachers prepare for pronunication problems common to specific language groups
- 1,000,000 additional example sentences from books and newspapers
- Photocopiable diagnostic test and worksheets can be used in class with minimal preparation
- An audio CD provides listening material for select activities
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| 11. Teaching Pronunciation |  | Marianne Celce-Murcia, University of California, Los Angeles Donna Brinton, University of Southern California
Janet Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles
With Barry Griner, University of Southern California
The second edition includes updates and insights on current research and pedagogical practice that have developed over the last decade.
This new edition of Teaching Pronunciation - undoubtedly the gold standard for pronunciation methodology texts – has been revised to reflect recent research into the sound system of North American English, as well as new practices in pronunciation pedagogy. Audio CDs with additional examples are now packaged with the book.
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