Noises and Colors: Two Untraditional Methods of Teaching ESL/ EFL Pronunciation

This article is based on a professional development session or presentation that the author gave in regional TESOL affiliate conference, and it discusses importance of teaching, why ESL/ EFL teachers should teach pronunciation, reasons they generally give for avoiding how we can integrate into our curriculum. The sheds light SLA, Second Language Acquisition, research especially studies are related to connectionism noticeability hypothesis their connection teaching practicing pronunciation ESL/EFL classroom. focuses not only segmental aspects English such as vowel phonemes but underscores suprasegmental features thought groups/chunking word/phrase stress because shape rhythm English, which key intelligibility. also suggests using two effective tested techniques variety learners provides samples classroom activities could be easily implemented together with vocabulary. concludes reviewing some conducted quite recently about one these suggested approaches see this approach is.