Role of English Teacher in Developing Pronunciation Competency in Students

Abstract

English is an International language and it is used as the first language in many countries like United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, America, and New Zealand. It also employs as the second language in India, Bangladesh, Srilanka, etc. Pronunciation plays a very significant role in learning English language. It is one of the essential parts of communication through listening and speaking. Though English is the native language of both British and America, the pronunciation differs from each other. Also, the pronunciation of both countries differs from the pronunciation of Indian English due to the effect of various dialects, social and cultural back grounds. Most of the Indian students are facing various problems in learning English pronunciation as they are completely habituated in speaking their vernacular language. Creating communicative competence in the students is a crucial objective of the English Language Teacher. The teacher must inculcate the interest of learning English in the minds of the vernacular medium students to improve their proficiency in communication skills with English medium students. This paper adumbrates different ways to improve the pronunciation of the vernacular language students through listening to phonetics, stress, intonation patterns.