English Pronunciation for ESL students

English Pronunciation for ESL students What is the accent? The focus is the transmission of sound from the speaker of the language, the second language. When we are children we have literally be able to speak all the languages of the world. We are all bo with the necessary mechanisms and the ability to lea any language. We conclude by saying that the language that there are only reinforced. A child who hears the sounds and speech pattes is exposed are those that have developed. Soon the child wins the fine motor skills and control they need to be sound. The child is first of all babbling and playing with sounds. Soon she is capable of producing simple vowel-consonant combinations which maybe why Mama and Dada are often the first words, they can be combined and the great response that raises is intensifying its efforts. At 18 months, will be capable of about 20 words, the sense, and 50 words. Now, of course, children have the final experience of immersion. In order to maintain control over their environment and must lea the language, and are surrounded by the language, nearly 24 hours a day. Of course, the second language, students do not have these advantages. Even if you live in an English speaking country, and attend courses to lea English, it will still be able to speak and listen to your first language with friends and family, especially in America, a country of immigrants to find a community of people with the same language, the background is possible. Another challenge is the expectation. For many years you have heard, a model of intervention, and there is an expectation of what you hear when others speak. They predict what sounds, on the basis of your next subconscious language. I call this listening with an accent. You need to pass through this barrier, you really feel like the other speakers to listen actively. To listen is to lea, and I do not mean that in an existential way. I think if we can not know how the sounds are produced can not lea how to set the tone. Perhaps that is why ETS added Talking and Listening sections of TOEFL. The two responsibilities are so closely linked. When you hear the sound you must contact your phonetic library. This means that you have in mind the knowledge and understanding, for each sound or phoneme in the original language. Now it must be some sounds that are in America, the audio system that is not in the original language of your audio system. Take you to read short paragraphs. Only 2-3 sentences in English. Then listen to the recording. Write down exactly what you hear on the recording. Not what you say, but what we really have to say. How is it different from what was written? You said, Do, when it was written or did you say d? I would suggest sticking with the consonants in the first place, because the differences are easier to identify. If you want to help improve the delivery would be best to give a speech rather than an ESL teacher. Discourse in the physiology of the mechanisms of action and of the muscles. They understand what is involved in the production of each sound and will be identified and problems with articulation. Although the emphasis is not a problem of articulation as they have similar characteristics. If a client is difficult to articulate specific sounds of speech can hear and see what they do differently, and to describe and demonstrate how to do it properly. If a customer has an accent of the speech can see what the person is different and do the show and describe how to make the sound so that most closely approximates the norm. The most important advice I can give is to practice. It can feel like you exaggerate when you speak with an American accent, "but I am sure that Native American speakers around you are not yet known. They are only impressed with your style!