Curent Perspectives on Pronunciation Learning and Teaching

This paper aims at stressing current perspectives on pronunciation learning andteaching. It summarizes the background of pronunciation teaching, emphasizes the needfor incorporating pronunciation into foreign language classes owing to regardingpronunciation as a key to gaining full communicative competence, and takes intoaccount present-day views in pronunciation pedagogy like the impact of the discipline ofpsychology in pronunciation teaching, NLP as a perspective frequently advocated byinnovative pronunciation teachers, the idea of approaching pronunciation teaching fromdifferent modalities, the relationship between effective foreign language pronunciationteaching and Gardner’s MI Theory, Autonomous pronunciation learning and teachingand the use of technology for the teaching of pronunciation.