This can be tested by placing the finger against the outside of the throat about half way between the chin and the larynx. Jones, consider the state of tension of the tongue to be an important factor in the production of various vowel qualities, and they distinguish tense vowels from lax vowels. But words like fit and feet, cot and caught, wood and wooed are, or may be, distinguished by vowel quality only, instead of by a complex of duration and quality.
There is a modern tendency in South-Eastern English to lengthen some or all of the traditionally short vowels, , in many situations.
There are twelve vowel sounds in English:, ,, ,, that may be considered as short or long, but their actual lengths vary to a limited extent in the same way as those of, etc. The sounds of English may be arranged in three groups: vowels, double vowels or diphthongs, and consonants. In English it comes in the middle or at the end of many words: English, think, song, sitting, longer and presents a lot of trouble to pupils to produce it correctly as there is no sound like this in the Russian language. To Russian-speaking pupils the combination of sounds, which occurs in English at the end of a word (months, clothes) is strange and they find great difficulty in pronouncing a word with this sound combination. There are many difficult sounds in English for Russian learners,, ,, , for example. The sounds of English are not the same as the sounds of Russian, though there are, of course, some sounds which occur both in English and in Russian. THE DIFFICULTIES IN ENGLISHPRONUNCIATION USUALLY EXPERIENCED BY RUSSIAN-SPEAKING PUPILSĪny language has its specific phonic system. Every teacher must understand how important the teaching of correct pronunciation is.
For example, white instead of wide it instead of eat pot instead of port, etc. For example, when a speaker or a reader replaces one phoneme with another he unintentionally uses quite a different word, in this way altering the sense of what he wanted to say. Wrong pronunciation often leads to misunderstanding. These are combined with kinesthetic images, resulting in inner speech. In reading the visual images become acoustic images. Teaching pronunciation is of no less importance in the developing of reading and writing habits and skills, since writing (or what is written) is a graphic representation of sound sequences. is of great importance in the developing of pupils' hearing' and speaking habits and skills. The hearing of a given word calls forth (he acoustic image of that word from which a meaning is obtained. One of the tasks of language teaching consists in devising ways to help the learner "aud" the unfamiliar sounds. The acquisition of good pronunciation depends to a great extent on the learner's ability of listening with care and discrimination. Listening is the first experience the attempt to understand accompanies it. It is in these sound sequences that the ideas are contained. The first impact of any language comes from the spoken word. THE IMPORTANCE OF CORRECT PRONUNCIATION IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
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