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| Basically the assignment is Why is the teaching of pronunciation important and the difficulties spanish speakers may have with pronunciation in english. Any feedback would be much appreciated. Thankyou. |
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| Three general points spring to mind:
Good luck. b Last edited by BobK; 02-Feb-2007 at 17:31. Reason: Fix link |
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| One other thing: consonant clusters. English uses lots, while Spanish breaks them up with vowel sounds so the there are usually at most two consonants together in a single syllable. For example, English 'strange' has the cognate word estraño; whereas English is happy to start a syllable with three consonant phonemes, Spanish ensures that there are only two each in 'es-' and '-tra-'. This makes for much L1/L2 interference. I had a student once who said (informally - the choice of words was fine) 'it's crap'; I had difficulty understanding her at first because she inserted a schwa between the words. b |
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