6. What can we do to develop pronuntation?

It’s essential to recognize how important is pronunciation when we want to build oral language. The language is the way that we use to communicate, so we have to take care about our pronunciation. The communication is the most important thing we have to learn when we want to learn a language, because with communication we can socialize, we can express,  we can transfer information, we can say what we think and what we feel.

We have to know millions of things about how to develop language skills and how to improve pronunciation.

Firstly, children need to communicate in English, the firsts lessons should take place in English, entirely in English since they are very young because they have the ability to understand, they have tools to do it. To help pupils understanding teacher can do facial gestures and gestures, it accompanies speech to very young children. Students acquire language by taking part in activities, this is a big true. Children will communicate and use the language if they need it, so they have to participate in activity, in real tasks.

Secondly, it’s important to make a print rich classroom because it contributes to practise pronunciation. A print rich classroom is filled with letters, words and labels. It makes accessible and visual the literacy, so contribute to pronunciation. Also it promotes students interaction with word and text. In a print rich classroom we can find labels of classroom objects (words, names…), posters with classroom routines ( calendar, rules, what’s the weather like today? what’s the day today?...) and bulletin boards where pupils can display they own work ( personal best).

Thirdly, we have to know how have to be a proper pronunciation activity. It has to have three parts; we have to pay attention in starting part where, teacher have to review related activities done previously, show examples of work done by the children on previous occasions and capture the children’s interest by explain the new activity and show them related material.  The sustaining part where teacher has to watch each child carefully, participating and helping and where necessary adding a comment to guide children or sustain their interest.  And the last part, ending part where teacher have to give an opportunity for children can show their work themselves and explain what they have done in order to gain oral fluency.

Moreover, the repetition is primordial in the language skills develop and pronunciation improves. Repetition doesn’t bored young children. Children enjoy it.  It gives children a feeling of satisfaction and achievement that helps to motivate. Children need further opportunities to consolidate before they can use it. Teacher have to use only English without translation, he needs careful planning activities and adequate support of material. Also, teacher has to create an atmosphere where children are ready and comfortable to speak and communicate in English, because children are going to learn English by using it. Furthermore, teacher has to organize and control the activities. Mistakes are necessary part of the oral language learning process because pupils can see their own mistakes and improve.

 Here you have a long list of tools that are effective to promote the development of pronunciation. In my opinion, I like these following four activities:

-          Memorizing poems

-           Saying tongue twister

-           Saying riddles

-          Storytelling

-          Spelling words

These tools are different activities that we can work in an English classroom to develop the pronunciation, although these activities foster de motivation and encourage pupils to engage. So, as future teachers, we have what strategies and tools use and which ones are significative, meaningful and useful in order to make an effective teaching and set students up to success.