Teaching Pronunciation

Introduction
In teaching pronunciation, the goals of instructions are:
Enable our learners to understand and be understood
Build their confidence in entering in communicative process
Enable the learners to monitor their speech based on input from the environment
Pronunciation is the language feature most readily identifies speakers as non-native, teaching it, is crucial.
Pronunciation Instruction Trends
Past: Usually focused on the articulation of consonants, vowel and minimal pairs.
Recent years: Focus shifted to include a broader emphasis on suprasegmental.
Segmental=actual consonant and vowel sounds.
Suprasegmental: the features that occurs above the segments, e.g., stress, rhythm and intonation

The Segmental/Suprasegmental Debate
With the advent of CLT, focus shifted to fluency rather than accuracy, encouraging an almost exclusive emphasis on supresegmentals. Emphasis on meaning and communicative alone won¡¯t suffice to achieve grammatical accuracy...