English Pronunciation Activities & Games for Esl Students

by thailanddelights in Education, November 22, 2009

More ESL English language games & activities to spice up your teaching.

One thing that a lot of students young and old alike find a little tricky is pronouncing the target language they are learning. Lets face it, have you ever tried to learn another language? I bet you have! No doubt you’ll most certainly have encountered the same problems as your own students will be facing in their efforts to reproduce the language they are learning. So you now have an understanding of what it’s like to learn another language.

Difficulties that befall learners of foreign languages fall into a few categories, and the two main categories are listening and speaking. You see the human ear tends to be tuned into the sounds of your own native tongue. So if all of a sudden it’s presented with a lot of new sounds and vocabulary, it’ll all seems very incomprehensible!

So what’s the solution? Think of it a little like tuning a radio onto a channel. At first when the tuner starts to come close to the channel you can here a noise, though you can’t yet make it out. The closer you get the clearer the noise is and the easier it becomes to work out what is being said, Here are a couple of fun ways you can teach good pronunciation in the ESL classroom as well as sharpening your student listening skills.