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Material development in teaching pronunciation
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Teachers should design additional materials to meet the demand of the students in learning pronunciation. In our teaching context, our students seem to be still confused with the English sounds , especially the vowels as many of them do not exist in Vietnamese language. Therefore, we designed a set of material to help the 10th form students to solve the problem.
The set of material composes the followings:
1. a handbook for the 10th form students at upper-secondary school.
The handbook is aimed at recycling the new words they have met in their new textbook called Tieng Anh 10.
The content of the handbook consists of 20 pages on 20 English vowels: each page has all the new words in the textbook that contain the vowel that exists in English , the unit it appears, the phonetic symbol, the word meaning and three tasks designed for the students to practise the sounds in words and in sentences.
The pages are arranged in colour papers to classify 3 types of vowel sounds: short vowels, long vowels and diphthongs.
2. A CDA recording our voices as reference to guide the students and help them self-practice .
Hi Marylou!
Thanks a lot for your praise. It encourages me alot in my career.
Best wishes,
Vuthixuandung
Hello Vuthixuandung:
I would suggest providing the students with a comparison of the place and manner of articulation between their L1 sounds and the L2 sounds. Providing them with this information regarding the articulation of their L1 sounds will create a context in which to understand the articulation of the L2 sounds.
Dan Jenkins (Foreign Expert, English Department, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, China)

Hi Vu
I can not possibly of a better way to do it can yours.
Marylou