Integrating pronunciation elements into listening lessons for first-Year students in Backan Community College

Tóm tắt Integrating pronunciation elements into listening lessons for first-Year students in Backan Community College: ...the book “Teaching pronunciation” Dalton compared the two main approaches to pronunciation teaching: the bottom-up and top-down approach. In the bottom-up approach, teachers start with articulations of individual sounds and then focus on intonation. In the top- down approach, teachers work with...est was designed with the selected words and sentences from the pronunciation practice during twelve weeks in order to measure the students’ ability of pronunciation performance after the intervention. The six progress tests contained the words and sentences from the ones practiced during two ...different levels of students. It must be noted that the scores of low-level students increased much more than the ones of medium and high-level students. However, the questionnaires data revealed that the students enjoyed learning pronunciation elements with this new technique. All the student...