Difficulties And Solutions Of Pronunciation Of Spoken English

                            Difficulties

A student who wishes to learn spoken English or any other spoken language has to face many difficulties. Five of them are given as follows :

Difficulty No. 1 :-

He has to learn different speech sounds occuring in English language through readily and even when he hears those sounds pronounced ;  the acoustic qualities related to those sounds must be remembered.

Difficulty No. 2 :-

Making foreign sounds with his own organs of speech is also a difficult part of learning spoken English.

Difficulty No. 3 :-

After learning foreign sounds, he has to learn using those sounds in their proper places in speech.

Difficulty No. 4 :-

Proper usage in the matter of the “sound-attributes” or “catenating” should also be learned which can also be differentiate as stress, length and voice-pitch.

 Difficulty No. 5 :-

Learning to catenate sounds, joining of each sound in a sequence on to the next, pronouncing complete sequence frequently without stumbling. These all also comes in difficulties of learning spoken English.

             In addition, if a student  wants to learn written English, it is also another difficulty for him as learning of spoken English and learning of written English, both are diffferent from eachother. A student can become great speaker English Language without knowing qualities of written English. Similarly, a student can become a good reader and writer of English Language without knowing acoustic qualities of pronunciation.

                                         Solutions

Now, solutions for the above difficulties are defined. These solutions will be helpful for the students of Spoken English.

Solution of No. 1 :-

Difficulty no. 1 related to “Ear-training”. A student can not become a successful linguist if he doesn’t have good ears. If, by nature, his ears are sensitive , they will become more sensitive by training. On the other hand, if a student has good ears, they will become better by training. A linguist should have good ears because of  two reasons. One is, he can correctly hear the pronunciation of English sounds and the second is , his good ears will help him to understand the English language readily when spoken by native speakers. He may also differentiate different words easily.

Discrimination between sounds and remembering the acoustic qualities of English sounds are included in possession of good ears.  For making a good linguist, effective exercises of dictation of isolated sounds of Spoken English are required. The teacher who is teaching the student should also teach English words phonetically.

Solution of No. 2 :-

This difficulty is belonged to gymnastics of the vocal organs.  A student learning spoken English has to put his lips, tongue and other parts of the speech organs into certain definite positions for pronouncing English sounds similar to native speakers. The student should study phonetic theory for this and has to perform many exercises with respect to it.

Solution of No. 3 :-

This difficulty related to matter of memorising. The student has to learn the correct order of placing the sounds to make intelligible words and sentences. He must have to learn the particular sequence of sounds with the help of Phonetic Transcription which is recommended method of showing sound-order graphically. In addition, he has to learn allophones also for this.

Solution of No. 4 :-

If the student is provided smart exercises in matter of length, stress and pitch of English sounds, he may easily solute this difficulty.

Solution of No. 5 :-

This difficulty is far different from others. Ability of catenating and pronouncing sounds without stumbling can help the student to overcome on this difficulty. The student should also not stop between words and should not take wrong pauses during speech. An average speaker of English language can speak sentences at an average rate of some 300 syllables to the minute or five syllables per second which is ideal rate for learners of spoken English.