In this session, we look at the importance of stress in determining the intelligibility of student pronunciation. One of four main components of the suprasegmental features of pronunciation, stress is often overlooked in our teaching
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- Teaching Pronunciation
Most teachers know the basics of the English sound system and can describe how to produce individual sounds to students. The challenge comes in taking students deeper into the features of English pronunciation - what happens when two sounds occur next to each other, stress and unstress, and intonation. We explore these deeper details of English pronunciation in our pronunciation courses.