Q&A: How can we teach pronunciation (in English Language Teaching)through the communicative approach?
Question by debes1998: How can we teach pronunciation (in English Language Teaching)through the communicative approach?
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Answer by satiyagraha
Its something to be learned by frequent usage. But you must learn IPA first. IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a good way t o learn pronunciations of words even if you do not interact with another one or you do not listen to it. But there is still not a certain method to learn pron. of words. ( Sounds and letters don’t agree 
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When the English tongue we speak
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it’s true
We say sew but likewise few?
And the maker of the verse
Cannot cap his horse and worse?
Beard sounds not the same as heard
Cord is different from word.
Cow is cow, but low is low
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose and nose and lose,
And of goose and yet of choose.
Think of comb and tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll, and home and some.
And since pay is rhymed with say,
Why not paid with said, I pray?
We have blood and food and good
Mould is not pronounced like could?
Wherefore done and gone and lone?
Is there any reason known?
And, in short, it seems to me
Sounds and letters don’t agree!
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