Exposure to and imitation of appropriate models of spoken English are essential to the acquisition of a high performance level in pronunciation.
The activities in this handbook consist of a set of exercises aimed at providing you with elementary practice in the recognition and production of a number of phonological features, with special attention to English vowel and consonant phonemes. These exercises are also expected to help you become aware of and develop different strategies that may prove useful to you as a learner of a foreign language and prospective EFL professional. Such strategies include:
Using a dictionary
Resorting to the visual representation of sounds
Associating symbol and sound
Giving and receiving feedback from peers
Pronunciation self-awareness
Pronunciation self-assessment
Self-confidence
Self-monitoring
