Teaching and Testing English Pronunciation

Abstract

‘I know my words and grammar were good, but nobody would understand me, just because of my pronunciation’ (Antimoon.com). If the learners cannot hear well, they are cut off from language. If they cannot be understood, they are cut off from conversation with native and non- native speakers. One of the problems that has been faced by the teachers teaching English to speakers of other languages is that many students in India simply come to college without having the basic knowledge of how they speak in English. However, a lot of students who speak English perfectly well with their mother tongue accent are not intelligible to everyone. Therefore, if the students are given the training to correct their pronunciation to have an overall development in communication, it gives positive results. This paper deals with Teaching and Testing English Pronunciation with twenty students who belong to Andhra Pradesh for a period of two months.