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Abstract:
Now a day, all regions of world coming closer to each other and world is
globalizing. Naturally, all the masses and people are getting more familiar and
more near to each other. This way, they collectively effect each other in all
aspects of life. Specially, it is the language, which is effected more. And, as it
is said that English is local language of the world. So, it has immense number of
people around the globe to speak it up. Every one of them has its own way to deal
with it but it's quite sure that Language is not that kind of abstract art which
can be dealt in one's own way like any abstract painting. "Language is humankind's
distinctive feature. Whether we think of rationality or sociability, we are
thinking of language.
It is language that makes us different from other species." And especially when
one talk about speaking of English or learning to speak English, he must replace
the saying: "Seeing is believing" with "Hearing is believing" because speech is
therefore the basic form of language. This leads to the conclusion that speech
should be emphasized accurately. As it is confirmed that "without some degree of
accuracy, speaker could end up producing unrecognizable or incomprehensible
language.
I don't think we need to try to turn people into sounding like native speakers,
but we do need to get them to be capable of being understood by a variety of
listeners, which involves a degree of approximation to the core sounds." So, it is
quite important to teach the right pronunciation of English to the learners, so
that they may communicate exactly what and how they want to communicate.
Being Pakistani English learners we often face various problems in speech and
pronunciation. As we do not have very much education in our country and English
teachers are not so well trained all over the country so they just let know the
student what the English is?? But very much of them are not well aware of correct
speech and pronunciation so it is very much obvious that Pakistani English
learners linger behind in this field.
Pakistani students also make difficulties by following every word's spelling. And
one more thing affects Pakistani students and that is American influence on
Pakistani media and they actually confuse British and American accent of English.
Suggestions:
Let the students be familiar with the articulators and the functions of
them.
Help students practicing sounds more and more and give them more variety of
pronunciation practice.
Let the students be familiar with the dictionaries and they should know how
to use it.
Give the reference of the sounds of the student's own native language
wherever it is possible.
References:
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/pronunciation-phonetics/38675-importance-
pronunciation.html
http://www.wowessays.com/dbase/af1/arm299.shtml
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/esl/pronunciation.cfm
http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/why-does-my-teacher-make-me-learn-phonemic-
script.html