Open AccessFrom Focus on Sounds to Focus on Words in English Pronunciation Instruction
Author(s) -
Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska,
Sławomir Stasiak
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
research in language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2083-4616
pISSN - 1731-7533
DOI - 10.2478/v10015-010-0012-7
Subject(s) - pronunciation , focus (optics) , linguistics , psychology , foreign language , mathematics education , philosophy , physics , optics
The authors present a report on the experiment in which a group of 25 Polish secondary school pupils has undergone a special training in the pronunciation of 50 commonly mispronounced words with the use of special, teacher-designed materials. The effectiveness of the employed procedure as well as the pupils' reactions to it are examined and pedagogical conclusions are drawn