ADAPTING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN TEACHING PRONUNCIATION

Abstract

Learning a language can be a daunting activity for the foreign language learners. It is because there are so many skills that the learners have to master such as speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Especially in spoken language, the learners must also work hard to be as closer as native-like accent and become intelligible. Students have great difficulty in learning spoken language features, such as pronunciation due to some different aspects in their first language. The differences start from the individual speech sounds to a more communicative aspect of connected speech. Today, pronunciation teaching is experiencing a new renewal by increasing awareness of the communicative function of supra-segmental features in spoken discourse like stress and intonation. In fact, the time spent for practicing these aspects and the involvement of the students in real situation, are still limited. Thus, teachers must be creative in creating teaching strat- egy in order to achieve the pronunciation teaching’s goal. This article discusses one way of teaching pronunciation aspect, i.e. intonation through the use of board games.