Diagnosing pronunciation problems

The first step to helping learners with their pronunciation is diagnosing issues they may have in relation to sounds, word stress, sentence stress and intonation.

Task

Watch Mary talking about ways to help learners with their pronunciation. Then, read the quotes from online teachers saying how they diagnose their learners’ pronunciation issues. What different methods are mentioned? (You can click on the image to expand the quotes.)

Screen reader accessible version of the quotes

Check your answers.

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