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Teaching English Language Essay

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English is the most spoken native language in the world, and regarding its real number of speakers, it is globally the most spoken official language, and it is the primary language used in any international affairs.The English language is officially accepted even in those nations or countries where it is not primarily being used as spoken language. It is indisputably the primary language of global trade and commerce.
The teaching of pronunciation has faced drastic change over the history of English language teaching and learning. It was one of the most neglected aspects in English, and it has got more attention with the past half of the twentieth century with the invention of audio-lingual devices. Throughout history, teachers and linguists …show more content…

After presenting a numeric system to classify stress patterns in English to two ESL classes, he questioned his students to get feedback about his tutorial methods. The numeric system that he designed only provided information to the student for considering the number of syllables in a word to guess which syllable of the word would get the stress. However this system is minimal and does not merely specify rules of thumb, but it still recommends that students can take advantage of it, since 25% clearly accepted that “applying the numeric system assisted them in learning new words pronunciation”, and “to learn about using new words in conversation” …show more content…

Stress is a vital part and also a complicated aspect of communication, and mostly they are counted as the unconscious mechanisms among the native speakers. Stress belongs to suprasegmental aspect of English pronunciation. On the other hand, stress is the loudness or emphasis on a certain syllable in a multisyllabic word in which the pitch of the voice rises and falls throughout an utterance that in result it creates melody or intonation

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