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:
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Memorizing poems
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Saying tongue twister
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Saying riddles
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Storytelling
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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.