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Online Resources for Pronunciation Teaching

Many teachers go first to online sources for answers to their questions. So it is helpful to have carefully-considered choices of sources to use. These sources are some of the ones especially recommended by researchers and practitioners.

Online Resources & Apps for Spanish and French Pronunciation (Joan ​Palmiter Bajorek)

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General 

Pronunciation Feature Introduction Author/Developer Length Contributor
Anatomy of speech production Overview of everything from respiration, phonation, articulation & resonance. Ozarks Technical Community College 16 slides Colleen Meyers
Lip workout Great exercise for helping students for whom lip movement needs work when speaking English, e.g., /iy/, /ow/, etc. Marsha Chan 3:35 Colleen Meyers

Consonants and Vowels

Pronunciation Feature Introduction Author/Developer Length Contributor
Vowels and Consonant Sounds This website has step-by-step descriptions, as well as animations of how to produce each of the vowel and consonant sounds in English. It also includes German and Spanish. University of Iowa Several pages Colleen Meyers
Vowels This is the Color Vowel Chart which many instructors use to teach vowel sounds. Karen Taylor and Shirley Thomson 1 web page Colleen Meyers

Individual Sounds

Pronunciation Feature Introduction Author/Developer Length Contributor
Spanish Speakers: /b/ vs. /v/ sounds and vowel reduction in unstressed syllables Notice how enunciating the /v/ sound makes the word "invited" more clear. In addition, reduction of unstressed vowels in the last two syllables of "chocolate" makes the word more" intelligible. Aspen Productions 2:27 Colleen Meyers
/p/ vs. /b/ for Arabic speakers Observe how a piece of paper can help Nafeth with the aspirated /p/ in "Palestinian." Aspen Productions 0:33 Colleen Meyers
Final /l/ for Portuguese and Vietnamese speakers Observe how work on linking "Brazil is" works for the Portuguese speaker and how learning how to avoid nasalizing the final /l/ works for the Vietnamese speaker. Aspen Productions 1:07 Colleen Meyers
/l/ and /r/ sounds: pencil trick Using a pencil to help students feel and see differences between /l/ and /r/ especially final position. Colleen Meyers 2:45 Colleen Meyers
/r/ sound Some good tips, such as lip protrusion for saying the /r/ sound. Paul Gruber 4:47 Colleen Meyers
/v/ sound Work on friction and air to build up strength in lips. Colleen Meyers 3:08 Colleen Meyers

Intonation

Pronunciation Feature Introduction Author/Developer Length Contributor
Intonation of American English Written overview of pitch—introduces 4 levels used in ToBI system Pronuncian.com 1 page Colleen Meyers
Intonation in English: Part I It uses parts from the Celce-Murcia book. It has a dialogue at the end to illustrate. Edna Lima 8:35 Colleen Meyers

Word Stress 

Pronunciation Feature Introduction Author/Developer Length Contributor
Introduction to Word Stress and Rhythm This video introduces the concepts of word stress and rhythm. It includes PRAAT visuals to help visualize. Rachel's English 4:18 Colleen Meyers
Using Audacity to Work on Word Stress An excellent tutorial on using Audacity to record one’s production of word stress to match the model recording. Edna Lima 6:38 Colleen Meyers
Introduction to function words in English This introduces the concept of function words (unstressed) words. Rachel's English 5:33 Colleen Meyers
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