CplK
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- Apr 6, 2015
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- English
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- United States
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- United States
Hi, I am a newish ESL teacher and I have a Brazilian Portuguese speaker with a problem I'm not sure how to solve. She is in the US 10 years and is originally from Sao Paulo.She often leaves the ends off 2 and 3 syllable words, e.g. part- for party; mov- for movie, document- for documentary.
It causes a conversation to come to a stop. I have researched online and in several books and have only found reference to "elision of unstressed vowels at the ends of words". But, no advice on how to teach my student to be aware of this. I don't think she knows she is NOT saying the syllable.
Is this a rhythm problem? Counting syllables problem? It is not her hearing--her husband (also from Brazil) does the same thing.
Any advice on how to tackle this would be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
CplK
It causes a conversation to come to a stop. I have researched online and in several books and have only found reference to "elision of unstressed vowels at the ends of words". But, no advice on how to teach my student to be aware of this. I don't think she knows she is NOT saying the syllable.
Is this a rhythm problem? Counting syllables problem? It is not her hearing--her husband (also from Brazil) does the same thing.
Any advice on how to tackle this would be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
CplK