5 tips to teach pronunciation more effectively

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Improving their pronunciation is one of the most common objectives of students. However, teachers are often unsure about how to teach and correct pronunciation. Here, Rubens Heredia shares 5 tips to help your students pronounce sounds and words more clearly.

Have these tips worked for you? Is there anything you would add to the list? Share your ideas in the comments or on our social media, and let us know how you get on with Rubens’ tips!

 

Useful references

Hancock, M (2024) Schwa is mainly for listening. Modern English Teacher, 33 (1).

 

Marks, J. (2012) In praise of pronunciation. English Teaching Professional, (81).

 

Snelling, R. (2023) Speaking: what is it and how can we teach it? Modern English Teacher, 32 (1).

 

Underhill, A. (2018) Grammar without pron… is like food without taste. Modern English Teacher, 27 (1).

 

Walker, R. (2015) The globalisation of English: teaching the pronunciation of ELF. Modern English Teacher, 24 (4).

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Rubens Heredia
Rubens Heredia
Rubens Heredia has been a vlogger for Pavilion ELT since December 2019. His vlog posts draw upon his experiences as a teacher and teacher trainer, as well as the ones as a student of Catalan and they provide a huge variety of teaching tips and techniques to use in the classroom, in flipped learning and in live online classes. Rubens is currently working as a freelance CELTA trainer, based in Barcelona, and he is the co-founder of whatiselt.com, a website and social media platform dedicated to helping English teachers and teacher trainers with definitions of common ELT concepts as well as examples and tips on how to use them more effectively in lessons. He began his teaching career in Brazil, where he taught one-to-one lessons and groups of children, teens and adults. Rubens has been involved in teacher training and course design for the last eight years. He's also a frequent speaker at international conferences and you can catch more from him on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @whatiselt.