British English pronunciation preferences: a changing scene

English Pronunciation Models : A Changing Scene Offprint

English Pronunciation Instruction: A Literature Review

English pronunciation instruction is difficult for some reasons. Teachers are left without clear guidelines and are faced with contradictory practices for pronunciation instruction. There is no well-established systematic method of deciding what to teach, when, and how to do it. As a result of these problems, pronunciation instruction is less important and teachers are not very comfortable in t...

Teaching Pronunciation of English with Computer Technology: A Qualitative Study

This study investigated teachers’ views toward computer technology in teaching English pronunciation. In order to select teachers for the semi-structured interview, the researcher used a questionnaire and distributed it to 25 teachers from two Islamic Azad Universities of Guilan, Iran. The researcher chose 15 of them based on their answers to the questionnaire. Then a qualitative method d...

Improving your English Pronunciation

Some Recent Developments in Standard British English Pronunciation and the Teaching of Efl

In most English departments at German universities the teaching of practical English phonetics has enjoyed a long and well-established tradition. In more recent times, such courses have not only dealt with the groundwork of English (mostly articulatory) phonetics, but also added relevant aspects of modern phonological theory, sociolinguistics and dialectology. Since the availability of language...