Common Mistakes in English Pronunciation in an EFL Classroom

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Common Mistakes in English Pronunciation
in an EFL Classroom

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Take a picture ? Tack a picture?

• A person with good pronunciation can communicate
  more successfully and get his message across more
  effectively and comprehensibly.
• perception vs. production.
• long vowels? short vowels?
• tense vowels? lax vowels?
• sound / minimal pairs / reading passage

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Common mistakes in Consonants (1)

• ? ? ? family
• ? ? ? ? bill, beer
• ? ?? bowl, hole
• ??? world
• ? , ? ? ? wean, swim, Lin
• ? ? ? , ? bang, rang, sing
• ? ? ? sometimes, him, name

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Common mistakes in Consonants (2)

• ? ? ? ????????? Ex turn
• ???? Ex usually, treasure
• ??? Ex anymore
• ? ?? Ex fine
• ??? Ex here (kids mistake)
• ??? Ex world
• ??? Ex English, big, red, big bird

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Common mistakes in Vowels (2)

• ? ? ? Ex text, red, desk
• ? ? ? talked, ball
• ?? ? hope, boat
• ? ? ? cop
• ? ? ? fool, soup
• ? ?? ?? spoon, moon
• ? ? ? under, cup
• ?? ? ? type
• ???? Ex time

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Common mistakes in Vowels (1)

• ??? sheet, peep, meet, wean, piece, feeling,
  please
• ? ? ? smithy, give, office
• ? ? ? dinner, ribbon, big, English
• ??? ? take, sail, name, pain, H, famous,
  briefcase, milkshake
• ??? treasure, red, letter
• ? ? ? Ex man, pan, math, lacks
• ? ? ? Ex sad

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Word Pairs for Practice

• ball / bowl
• sing / sin
• sad / said
• fool / full
• world / word
• bang / ban
• rang / ran
• pen / pain

• beat / bit
• meal / mill
• feeling / filling
• wean/win
• piece / piss
• peep / pip
• sell / sail
• tech / take

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Others

• coda (non-syllabic element)
• big, rain, sound, tap
• released / unreleased stops stand up, jump
  rope, Id like, good job
• aspirated / unaspirated
• sp- / st- / sk- ? ???
• space, student, street, strike, sky, score

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Linking of the Sounds

• Did you....
• Nice to meet you
• My name is.
• That is....
• What letter is it
• Im a
• hand-out

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Conclusion

• A good English teacher not only needs to have a
  good pronunciation of English but s/he also needs
  to have a good (sensitive) ear.