This girl has a good grammar foundation, but her pronunciation is seriously influenced by her mother tongue, so I assigned her a daily follow-up task. If she wants to take the IELTS test, I will let her read the listening manuscript of the IELTS test in Cambridge directly. Specifically, the operation is as follows:
Let her do exercises after listening to the audio, and then choose a recording that she thinks reads better and send it to me. After listening to her recording, I will pick out the wrong words and ask her to look them up in the pronunciation dictionary. If there is something wrong with the phonetic symbol, I will tell her how to pronounce it separately, so that she can see my mouth shape through the video and imitate it; If it is a matter of rhythm and intonation, such as continuous reading and weak reading, she will be told the rules, and then let her listen to the original again and imitate it.
Such an article can be listened to for 4 to 6 days, and finally it can basically achieve 80% similarity with the original text. We can also hear the progress of her pronunciation and intonation from her usual oral practice.
The training process is actually a cycle of continuous listening, perception, error correction, re-listening and re-perception. First of all, keep listening to yourself and strengthen your pronunciation and intonation emotionally. Just like we listen to the melody of a song over and over again, if we can't sing it accurately, we can at least hum it.
However, when adults learn English, because the critical period of language has passed, sometimes they can't tell the sounds that are not their mother tongue, and they don't know where they are different from the original. At this time, you need a professional teacher or someone with good pronunciation to help you find mistakes and then make targeted corrections.
In addition, because Chinese is a word-for-word language, it is easy for China people to stress consonants when speaking English, and there is no habit of linking and weak reading. At this time, you need to practice deliberately under the guidance of the teacher. First of all, you have to learn the basic weak reading rules of continuous reading, and then consciously use these rules when following the reading. You may not be used to it at first, but you will get used to it gradually.
In short, the practice of pronunciation and intonation is a long-term process, and it is important to persist.
From Xia Zi, a down-to-earth intellectual. Wechat official account: Xia Zi English class