tips to practice your pronunciation in IELTS, TEFLS, TESOL speaking
Pronunciation can be difficult as it relies on multiple factors, including word stress, sentence stress, short vowels, long vowels, and many more factors. Learning accurate and clear English pronunciation requires a lot of practice but is key to the Speaking test. You will see in the public band descriptors that 25% of your Speaking test score is based on pronunciation.
Considering this, we will look at five things you can do to practice and improve your pronunciation in time for your Speaking test.
Is your IELTS preparation time spent in indoors and online? While it’s not a bad thing, the best way to improve your pronunciation is by speaking English a lot.
Take your preparation out into the real world. Try studying grammar by talking about it with friends or family members. Try watching or listening to your daily news in English only. Or, chat to people in shops, on the bus or any other public space.
The idea is, the more English you speak, the better your pronunciation will become.
Not everyone knows this, but languages aren’t consistent in the sounds they have. Some might have sounds which don’t exist in other languages. For example, in Japan, the ‘I’ and ‘R’ sounds are the same. This means that many Japanese people have trouble pronouncing words where these letters are interchangeable, such as ‘lice’ and ‘rice’.
Or in Arabic, the letter ‘B’ and ‘P’ sound similar, so differentiating between ‘pat’ and ‘bat’ might be difficult for Arabic speakers. The key here is to find these sounds missing from your language and practice pronouncing them.
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