Teaching Pronunciation: A Reference for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

I. PRONUNCIATION INSTRUCTION IN PERSPECTIVE 1 The history and scope of pronunciation teaching 2 What research reveals about pronunciation II.THE SOUND SYSTEM OF NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH: AN OVERVIEW 3 The consonant system 4 The vowel system 5 Stress, rhythm, and connected speech 6 Prominence and intonation III. INTERSECTIONS OF THE SOUND SYSTEM WITH OTHER AREAS OF LANGUAGE 7 The sound system and listening 8 The sound system and inflectional morphology 9 The sound system and orthography IV. ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTATION 10 Alternative teaching techniques 11 Curriculum design 12 Testing and evaluation