WHY IS PRONUNCIATION NECESSARY?

Before we start a course of English, it is necessary to have a clear idea about communication. Communication is the process by which people Exchange information or express their thoughts and feelings.

Language is a means of communication. It has three components:

a. STRUCTURES: (the patterns that can be seen in these are usually called the grammar of the language).

b. WORDS: that convey meaning (vocabulary or lexis).

c. SOUND, STRESS and INTONATION PATTERNS: which combine to make up “pronunciation”

If you communicate only through the written word, you will need only the first two of these components. If, on the other hand, you want to be able to understand the spoken language, and to be understood, you will need all three components.

A child can get what it wants by pointing and saying ´Da! Da!, or screaming till it gets it. But a child soon learns that there are better ways of conveying its needs, and later, that the world and human thought and emotions are far too complex to be expressed merely by pointing or screaming.

Ideally, all three components of language should go hand in hand from the very beginning. If the unfamiliar sounds and pronunciation patterns are mastered early, they become so natural that is seems unnatural to say them incorrectly. All that is left to learn is where the stress lies and how some of the more unusual words are said.

Communication is a two- way process:

1   1.  Understanding other people when they speak. For this we need.

a.Knowledge        b.  Awareness, sensitivity

2   2. conveying what you want to say so that other people can understand you. For this we need:

a.Knowledge        b) Awareness*                          c) Control

*awareness(noun) the stateor level of consciousness.Conciencia

PRACTICE YOUR PRONUNCIATION WITH THESE TONGUE  TWISTERS*

*Tongue twisters: trabalenguas