Doing the
DELTA has really given me an insight into the
world of pronunciation. After reading
Teaching English Pronunciation,
English Phonetics and Phonology, and more recently Sound Foundations by Adrian Underhill, I've taken a extra interest in
integrating phonology and connected speech ideas into my classes. My students are having fun and I'm enjoying seeing the results.
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After all this extra reading and researching, I've collected some useful ESL pronunciation websites. Here they are in no particular order.
Minimal Pairs
1) Minimal pairs is a great way for students to recognise and rectify common pronunciation problems. This website,
ship or sheep, is blooming excellent. There's a list of about 30 different minimal pairs along with sound and pictures.
2) This is an even more extensive list of minimal pairs of vowels, diphthongs, and consonants. Check out
Minimal Pairs for English RP by John Higgins.
ESL Lesson ideas
5) I've used this
phonetic word list on
Montessorimom quite a bit to get lists of words to practise with students. You can do bingo games, get them to test each other with the pronunciation, dictate, or make up tongue twisters.
The phonetic chart
6) This
interactive phonetic chart on the
British council website is amazing. It's got an app too so your students can download it and practise their pronunciation while you're writing on the board or doing some photocopying...rather than checking out their facebook.
7) These
phonemic chart keyboard and is excellent if you need to type up any symbols for your students, or if you're doing the DELTA.
Diphthongs
Connected Speech
Weak forms
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