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[Slowmotion]

Has anyone here done a pronunciation class? I'm supposed to be doing a pronunciation class after school this semester and looking for some good material.

So far I'll be using this site for sound animations:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/

and going to be using English Pronunciation in Use (intermediate) by Cambridge. It sucks that it's British pronunciation because I have to carefully look over the examples as some of them wouldn't match in an American accent.

Any other good books or websites out there?

Also any tips for teaching stress? That seems the hardest for me and it's even hard for me to figure out where the stress is in a sentence on my own.

Thanks

[Hawkeye Pierce]

Usually, you are the human CD player.

If you do nothing more than get them to pronounce their "R's" and "L's" properly, you will be a successful Englishee teacha!

Focus on that!

You can also do "ponics" too!

[ddeubel]

It's a tricky thing "pronunciation". English Central is a good start for self study. http://englishcentral.com/teachers I've been helping them build a good site for teachers.

Also, I really think that Jazz Chants and the use of clapping for stress/intonation, works wonders.

On EFL Classroom, I have a whole page of links for pronunciation. Try HERE Also a nice link for phonetics that is much larger and whole class friendly.

DD
http://eflclassroom.com

[Slowmotion]

Where are these jazz chants and clapping stuff?


I'm worried someone will ask when to know where the stress is cuz I have no idea. Is there a general rule besides the noun vs verb words (i.e. as a noun convict is stressed in the first syllable and stressed in the second syllable as a verb)

[ddeubel]

On EFL Classroom - use the tag search and you'll get some hits for Jazz Chants. The YLs group has some nice training material by a Korean teacher about Jazz Chants. Get a few of her books/tapes - I especially recommend for young or old - Small Talk. Lots of useful, everyday language.

Basically, you already know! One thing all native speakers have to tell themselves is that they "know" the curriculum (which in its large sense is the english language). It is intuitively inside you. Practice saying a sentence and clapping out the syllables. Then clap louder for what is stressed. You'll soon do it naturally. Children catch on easily too. With Jazz Chants, you get it simplified and each chant has a specific series of syllables and stress. So makes it easier. Just learn the clapping sequence before and you are set.

Karaoke with the bouncing ball works in much the same way, believe it or not.

DD
http://eflclassroom.com