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Practice lessons

The road is difficult, not because of the deep water and the
high mountains that bar the way, but because we loose heart
when we think of the river and the mountain.
Vietnamese saying

This information is provided to help teachers to:
• Refresh basic theoretical positions on pronunciation teaching (for this purpose a set of tasks with answers is suggested)
• Raise awareness of tools and techniques for teaching pronunciation

The importance of teaching pronunciation cannot be overestimated. As new demands have been imposed on ELT training by the Ministry of Education with the introduction of new state standard of education in 1998, which are aimed at training specialists able to teach English for communication, teaching pronunciation becomes more important than ever. The way we sound when we speak a foreign language has a strong influence on the assumptions other people make about us and the judgements they make about the sort of people we are.