A very common tongue-twister that's been in vogue for a few decades is, "She sells seashells on the seashore." You can search for more from online sites or come up with your own.Ģ.
They are especially useful in teaching preschoolers in a way that's fun and make the sounds easy to remember.
Tongue twisters are a great way to introduce your child to the different consonant sounds. To help your child get his pronunciation right, regardless of his age, the following practices may be useful. Intonation: Rising and falling of one's voiceĪpart from this, volume, pitch, pause, pace and other aspects of voice dynamics also come into play in getting pronunciation right. Sounds: Vowels, diphthongs and consonants Good pronunciation focuses on three key things that your child will need to grasp well.
So, what are the key areas to focus on when teaching pronunciation to children? Worse, it can cause your child to be misunderstood. Mispronunciation can be a bane and throw a wet blanket on all the hard work that goes into making an impression. Introduction to teaching pronunciationĪs parents, while we are eager to teach the English language to our children, most of us could do with some help on how to teach pronunciation. The result being, the boy made a poor show of himself that day. What had happened was the boy had mispronounced 'party' to sound like 'potty', much to the amusement of the guests! What bothered me so much was the fact that the parents had not taken care to teach pronunciation to their child. Amidst it all, the beaming parents watched as their precious darling brought a board game and announced, "Now we will all play the potty game!"Īll the guests present laughed out loud and the birthday boy's parents started to look like deflated balloons when the hero of the day, confused, burst into tears and refused to come out of his room for the rest of the evening. At the birthday party of my good friend's six-year-old, it was difficult not to notice the lavish buffet, the expensive gifts and the three-tiered cake that looked too beautiful to cut up and eat.
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