Some Visual Aspects of Pronunciation

Numerous visitations in FL-classrooms lead me to the conclusion that pronunciation deficiencies stem, in part, from the almost exclusive reliance of students and teachers (native and non-native) on the ear as the sole criterion for judging the finished product of speech. By this same token mispronunciations are perpetuated in language laboratories in spite of reliable model voices, and much to the dismay of the teacher, who then tends to nourish doubts on the effectiveness of the laboratory in matters of pronunciation. Naturally, there are many ways and devices for arriving at an acceptable nearnative pronunciation. The purpose of this paper is to focus the classroom practitioner's attention on the neglected area of visual aspects of pronunciation

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