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Филология Of course the teacher takes those words pupils are fa-
miliar with. More often than not the teacher should begin a
lesson with pronunciation drill. This does not mean, however,
that its place should be strictly fixed. The teacher may turn
to pronunciation drill whenever he wants to draw his pupils
attention to the phonic aspect of the material they deal with
and in this way teach pupils correct English pronunciation.
The teacher's principal concern is to make sure that every
pupil can articulate English sounds correctly and pronounce
words, phrases and sentences as close to the pattern as pos-
sible; hence pupils' learning by heart the material included in
a phonetic drill (rhymes, proverbs, poems, songs, dialogues)
is not th e main aim. The main aim is pupils' correct pronun-
ciation with regard to sounds, stress, rhythm, and melody. If
tape — recordings used, the material should be recorded so
that pupils can first listen to the speaker, then repeat in imi-
tation of the speaker during the pauses long enough for pu-
pils to reproduce it. When recording the material for class-
work, therefore, it is necessary to take into account not only
the time for producing sounds or sound sequences, but for
organizing the class to pronounce it during the pause. So
pauses should not be too shot.
No matter how pronunciation is taught pupils will make
mistakes in pronunciation of sounds, stress, and tones in
the target language. The problem arises as to who should
correct the mistakes and how they should be corrected. In
the junior stage it is the teacher who corrects pupils' mis-
takes in pronunciation because pupils' ability to hear is not
developed yet; besides they need good examples to follow
which can be given either by the teacher or by the speaker.
Moreover, the teacher can explain the mistake to the pupil
and show him what should be done to avoid it. The ability to
hear the difference in pronunciation of people should be de-
veloped from the very first steps. At the intermediate and se-
nior stages pronunciation errors must be corrected both by
the teacher and by the pupils themselves, though it becomes
possible provided that sound producing aids are widely used
since listening to tape-recordings and records develops the
pupil's ability to hear erroneous pronunciation when com-
paring the pattern pronunciation of the speaker with that of
his own.
While reproducing passages of some text the students
must show their command of substitutes and other means of
connecting independent sentences into sequences. It is now
well established that in any speech event a certain amount
of information is not only issued, but also received. Human
communication is two-way (two-sided) activity controlled by
two different but interdependent and inter correcting mech-
anisms. This view upon human speech activity as a dynamic
process makes the two-sided approach inevitable.
Young teachers are inclined to expect immediate results
and soon they stop teaching pupils correct pronunciation as
a hopeless task. No doubt they forget their own imperfec-
tions and do not that pronunciation can be taught only by
a long, patient, and persistent effort throughout the whole
course of study.
References:
1. G. H. Vallins. Spelling. London, 1954 г. 34–38p.
2. D. Jones. An Outline of English Phonetics. 8th ed., Cambridge, 1957 г. 18–20p.
3. N. Rogova. Methods of teaching English Moscow 1988 г. 47–49p.
4. E. Dragunova and G. Krosnoshokova. Angliyskaya orfoepicheskaya sistema. M., 1944 г. 15–16 p.
5. B. A. Vasilyev. English Phonetics, Leningrad, 1962.19–22 p.