Diagnosing pronunciation problems

So if you’re going to teach speaking, obviously, your student will do lots of speaking in your session, which is great. You can also get them to do lots outside the session as well. So making, for example, YouTube videos is really popular. You can ask your student to make short videos on particular topics, send them to you. And that’s great. If your student wants to work on individual sounds - so a lot of students quite like, yeah, seeing their improvement on particular words that are difficult. A good thing to do is identify specific areas. Research your students’ language background to realise, OK, they speak this language. They will probably have this difficulty.

Look out for that difficulty, and then direct them to something like there’s a really good app, Sounds Foundations, I think it is. And they can practise the pronunciation of sounds on that.