Effective ways to improve the intermediate english learners’ pronunciation: a conceptual paper.

Abstract

It should be borne in mind that pronunciation is an important skill in learners’ L2 competence. Researchers are constantly trying to come up with techniques to make their students’ pronunciation abilities better. This paper aims to examine how corpora and two teaching techniques can be used to improve students’ pronunciation skills in a more effective manner. A review of the literature is provided in this paper, with a particular focus on the impact of corpus materials, critical listening, and shadowing on pronunciation teaching. The review indicates that students L2 competence can be enhanced by using corpus materials, critical listening, and shadowing separately. Hence, a C-CLASH (Corpus-based Critical Listening And Shadowing) model has been developed to assist in the instruction of pronunciation. Additionally, the limitations of C-CLASH are discussed.