Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is
expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, but few people are even
moderately (36) at pronouncing foreign languages. The
(37) reason why people in general do not speak foreign
languages very much better than they do is that they fail to (38)
the true nature of the problem of learning to pronounce, and
(39) never set about dealing with it in the right way. For
too many people fail to realize that pronouncing a foreign language is a skill,
one that needs careful training of a special kind, and one that cannot be
(40) by just leaving it to take care of itself, even
teachers of language, while recognizing the importance of a good accent, tend to
neglect, in their practical teaching, the (41) of study
concerned with speaking the language. So English pronunciation
must be taught; teacher should be prepared to devote some of the lesson time to
this, and by his whole (42) to the subject should get the
student to feel that here is a matter (43) of receiving his
close attention. So, (44) Apart from this,
there are two other requirements for the teacher: the first, knowledge; the
second, technique. (45) It is possible to get from books
some idea of the mechanics of speech, and of what we call general phonetic
theory. (46) between the speech habits of English people and
those of your students.
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