Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World

Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World provides teachers with strategies and practical pronunciation ideas to help students aiming for international intelligibility or a native speaker accent.

- Helps teachers and students establish goals and priorities, whether students are seeking international intelligibility or a native speaker accent.
-Explains the importance of focusing on consonants, vowels and stress.
- Encourages the use of the students' first language as a starting point for teaching aspects of English pronunciation.
- Explores how technology can be used to aid pronunciation and also provide exposure to different accents.
- Provides practical classroom ideas focusing on specific pronunciation points, using a step-by-step approach.
- Stresses the vitally important role that pronunciation plays in communication and how this can be reflected in assessment.