Pronunciation is important for adult ESL students to master. The wrong pronunciation can cause confusion and embarrassment, but the right pronunciation allows for effective communication with native speakers. Learn how to support your ESL students with posts that explain how to teach pronunciation.
I’ll never forget watching Ahmed confidently grab a marker when I handed out the first listening labyrinth of the term. “You want a pencil?” I asked. “No pencil,” he said, waving me off. “I know this.” Three minutes later, his paper was a disaster of crossed-out lines, scribbled corrections, and increasingly frantic marker strokes as […]
“Teacher, I need to fix my accent. Nobody understands me.” Zara pulled me aside after class, frustrated and exhausted. She’d been in the US for a year, her husband was in a PhD program, and she was trying to build a life here. But every day felt like a struggle. Her neighbors kept saying “huh?”
