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Pronunciation Matters: Communicative, Story-Based Activities for Mastering the Sounds of North American English

Pronunciation Matters: Communicative, Story-Based Activities for Mastering the Sounds of North American English. Lynn E. Henrichsen Brent A. Green Atsuko Nishitani Carole Lynne Bagley University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor (1999). Intended Audience:.

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Pronunciation Matters: Communicative, Story-Based Activities for Mastering the Sounds of North American English

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  1. Pronunciation Matters: Communicative, Story-Based Activities for Mastering the Sounds of North American English Lynn E. Henrichsen Brent A. Green Atsuko Nishitani Carole Lynne Bagley University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor (1999)

  2. Intended Audience: • Intermediate and Advanced ESL or EFL Learners • ESL Teachers • Not targeted to a specific language group

  3. Philosophy of Text • “Story-based, contextualized approach that provides a wealth of instructional activities that are varied, flexible, and adaptable.” • Each story focuses on particular sounds and associated differences in meaning. • Communicative approach

  4. Two Books and Four Cassettes with 186 Instructional (Pronunciation) Units • Vowels • Consonants • Consonant Clusters • Reduction and Blending • Word Stress • Sentence Stress • Intonation • Segmentation (quotations, parentheses, etc.)

  5. Book One: Student Workbook • Pronunciation Difficulties Diagnosis • 186 Pronunciation Units • Stories • Contrasting Sentences • Variations on Practice Activities • Phonological Explanations

  6. Book Two: Teacher’s Manual • Sample teaching plan outline • Sample teaching script • Peer-teaching cards (minimal pairs in context with illustrations)

  7. What I liked: • Thorough pronunciation diagnosis tests with convenient cross-referenced activities • Independent units can be tailored to student needs • Great phonological explanations

  8. What I liked: • Lots of activity options • Teaching plan outline • Contextualized approach keeps things interesting • Reproducible peer-tutoring cards

  9. What I didn’t like: • Student workbooks are a little confusing • Some strange activities • Peer-card stick-people illustrations • Mouth diagrams not very detailed • Technologically-challenged (cassettes?)

  10. Unfortunately . . . • Pronunciation Matters is out-of print • used copies on Amazon.com • at some libraries • But another resource for story-based pronunciation practice is: Narrative Activities for the Language Classroom by Ruth Wajnryb Cambridge University Press, 2003

  11. Summary: • Lots of good ideas for various activities (imitative, rehearsed, extemporaneous) • More useful as teacher resource book, not as student workbook • Best if supplemented with other materials

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