This document discusses strategies for practicing pronunciation and listening skills online. It begins by explaining the importance of pronunciation and listening for language learning. Next, it describes differences between English and Portuguese pronunciation. The document then provides numerous online resources for practicing listening and pronunciation, including websites that focus on vowel and consonant sounds. Finally, suggested speaking activities are outlined, such as creating voice recordings and providing feedback on transcriptions.
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Practicing pronunciation and listening online
1. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION
AND LISTENING ONLINE
@claudiofleury
claudio.fleury@gmail.com
CASA THOMAS JEFFERSON
BRAZ-TESOL BRASILIA ONE-DAY
SEMINAR MAY 11, 2012
2. OVERVIEW
• PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING
• DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND
PORTUGUESE
• PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• SUGGESTED SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
3. PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING
1. Students will not be able to understand a
word if they cannot pronounce it correctly.
2. Students will not be able to pronounce a word
correctly if they cannot differentiate the
sounds they hear.
3. Students have to know it.
4. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• SPELLING x PRONUNCIATION
– Portuguese - what you see is what you get
– English - what you see is almost never what you
get
problem: early contact with written text
5. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• NUMBER OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS
– Portuguese is rich in vowels - diphtongs,
triphtongs
– English is rich in consonants – consonant clusters
problem: tendency to add extra vowel sounds to
words
6. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• VOWEL SOUNDS
– English has long vowels and short vowels
• not, go - cheap, chip
– Portuguese has vowels
• bolo - chipe
problem - misunderstanding - minimal pairs
7. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• RHYTHM
– Portuguese is syllable-timed
– English is stress-timed
problem - emphasis on wrong words
- native speakers speak too fast
8. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• WORD STRESS
– Portuguese - stress on the last, one before the last,
two before the last syllable
– English - also three before the last syllable
(approximately, category), double stress
(understand)
problem - adaptation to Portuguese
pronunciation
35. ACTIVITIES
• CORRECT THE MESSAGE
– Record a message and send it to students along
with a text
– Students have to listen and identify the
differences
43. THANK YOU!
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION
AND LISTENING ONLINE
@claudiofleury
claudio.fleury@gmail.com
http://eflpresentations.pbworks.com
CASA THOMAS JEFFERSON
BRAZ-TESOL BRASILIA ONE-DAY SEMINAR
MAY 11, 2012