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2 General Problems  Foreign language speakers of a target language cause a great difficulty to native speakers because the sounds they produce seems very peculiar and their voices rise and fall in unexpected places.  It is not enough for students to learn words, grammatical structures, if they are not able to produce proper sounds which make their speech understandable to a native speaker.  Helping students to acquire a stress and intonation which are comprehensible to native speakers is one of the most difficult problems.  Even if you stay in a particular place for several years, you may still have a “foreign accent” that is not easily understood by the native speakers.

3 Acoustic Phonetics  It is very rare to find two languages with identical sound systems.  Teachers must understand the physical aspects of sound production such as variations of speech organs or in breath control.  Then they will be able to guide their students in correcting faulty sound productions.  Acoustic phonetics studies distinctions in pitch, loudness, timbre, and duration of sounds in different languages and dialects.  Articulatory phonetics deals with the opening or closing of the vocal cords and the nasal passage, various positions of the tongue and lips and determine the differences in vowel systems.

4 Articulatory Phonetics  Every language teacher should understand the principles of articulatory phonetics in both the native language and the target language.  A “foreign accent” is inevitable if students attempt to produce the sounds of a new language while their mouths shaped or tongues placed as for similar sounds in their native language.


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