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Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill
Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill
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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 proficient at pronouncing foreign languages. Now there are many reasons for this, some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest that the fundamental reason why people in general do not speak foreign languages very much better than they do is that they fail to grasp the true nature of the problem of learning to pronounce, and consequently never set about dealing with it in the right way. Far 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 acquired by just leaving it to take care of itself. I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical teaching, the branch of study concerned with speaking the language. So the first point I want to make is that English pronunciation must be taught; the teacher should be prepared to devote some of the lesson time to this, and by his whole attitude to the subject should get the student to feel that here is a matter worthy of receiving his close attention. So, there should be occasions when other aspects of English, such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to take second place.
Apart from this question of the time given to pronunciation, there are two other requirements for the teacher: the first, knowledge; the second, technique.
It is important that the teacher should be in possession of the necessary information. This can generally be obtained from books. It is possible to get from books some idea of the mechanics of speech, and of what we call general phonetic theory. It is also possible in this way to get a clear mental picture of the relationship between the sounds of different languages, between the speech habits of English people and those, say, of your students. Unless the teacher has such a picture, any comments he may make on his students’ pronunciation are unlikely to be of much use, and lesson time spent on pronunciation may well be time wasted. [br] According to the author, pronunciation is a skill that can NOT be______.
选项
A、picked up without conscious training
B、trained consciously
C、be taught
D、be carefully trained
答案
A
解析
定位到文章第一段第五句:“Far 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 acquired by just leaving it to take care of itself.”可见,外语发音是一项技能,是需要认真训练的技能,不能不理会它任其发展就能获得的技能,故可推知,发音技巧不通过有意识的训练是无法获得的,故选A项。
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