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■ The Treasure Hunt Club No. 84
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August 2012 Treasure Hunt
Pronunciation Resources and Firestorage
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and Culture
Studies

Many years ago, when I was in a graduate program for TESOL,
I had a course in phonology. One of the things the teacher
emphasized about teaching pronunciation was that
suprasegmental aspects of English were more important to
teach than segmental aspects. We were told to teach stress,
reduction, rhythm and intonation, and not to worry worry too
much about the individual sounds of the language. So that’s
what I have been doing for the past 15 years. But recent
research―done on communication between non-native speakers―
is apparently showing that individual sounds are more
important than everyone thought. A lot of communication
problems happen when non-native speakers get the individual
sounds wrong. So, with that in mind, I decided it might be a
good time to list up some online resources to help learners
with pronunciation.

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