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Yvonne M. Moore
yvonne.moore@britishcouncil.es
ivonmaggiemoore@hotmail.com
Abstract
Young learners enjoy playing with language, perhaps because they do not feel uncomfortable in
front of their peers. This session will look at how we can get young learners on the road to
pronouncing lexical items well, and going on to show how we as teachers can look at our
students sounding more natural, through work on intonation and connected speech.
Bio-data
Yvonne is an experienced primary teacher, who is interested in the way young learners learn and
are motivated by different approaches. She is now a Trinity Young Learner and Diploma Tutor
and YL Speaking Examiner
Where to start?
We have to realise that before students can consistently produce a given phoneme they
must be able to hear it
Conclusion
Pronunciation needs to be taught from the start because; Students need to understand how sounds are produced
Students need to be able to communicate efficiently and effectively as soon as
possible
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Purpose of Activities
Activity 1
Learner-centred activity, whereby students firstly choose their 6 letters and then a
student calls out the letters
If the students do not understand they can ask for clarification
The students need to focus on listening for the correct letter sound
Activity 2
(Bingo)
Activity 3
Activity 4
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