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Unit 13: Teaching Pronunciation and Phonology stresses the importance of teaching pronunciation, intonation and stress to allow students to sound more natural when speaking in English.
Using gestures, arrows on the board, nonsense words or humming are good techniques to show students how to use intonation in a sentence and convey their meaning more naturally.
Linked speech, such as sound dropping in "Bond Street" to "Bon Street" can help students sound naturally and more able to understand native speakers.
Learning the Phonemic Alphabet will help teachers to understand how they produce sounds in English and help their students imitate these sounds.
Peer dictation, over-emphasizing sounds, using diagrams and tongue-twisters can also help students to understand how to make their speech sound more natural and therefore be better understood.
