首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
自考
Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language ; but few people a
Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language ; but few people a
admin
2013-07-02
26
问题
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 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.
But it does not follow that you can teach pronunciation successfully as soon as you have read the necessary books. It depends after that what use you make of your knowledge; and this is a matter of technique.
The best way of learning to speak a foreign language he suggests is by______. ( )
选项
A、picking it up naturally as a child
B、learning from a native speaker
C、not concentrating on pronunciation as such
D、undertaking systematic work
答案
D
解析
推理题。从第一段“But I suggest that the fundamental reason...the branch of study concerned with speaking the language”部分可知,人们学不好外语的原因是他们没有注意到学习发音的重要性,即没有进行系统的学习。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/VBVaFFFM
本试题收录于:
英语阅读(一)题库文史类分类
0
英语阅读(一)
文史类
相关试题推荐
Regularinteractionorfamiliarityseemstoincreaseliking;often,thepeopleweinteractwiththemostaresimplythosewhoar
Authorityeasefromunfamiliarrefercumbersomeforthimproveexcludecomplicateupknowledge
Allofushavereadthrillingstoriesinwhichtheherohadonlyalimitedandspecifiedtimetolive.【C1】______.Butalwayswe
(compatibility)Itisimportanttomaintain______familyrelationships.
ImmensekeepoutofsharewithforintimebysolongasagainstaccountoninterfereInthelat
Intheeighteenth-century,oneofthefirstmoderneconomists,AdamSmith,thoughtthatthe"wholeannualproduceofthelandand
(danger)Believeitornot,therecanbenodoubtthatsmoking________yourhealth.
"Itisatruthuniversallyacknowledged,thatasinglemaninpossessionofagoodfortune,mustbeinwantofawife."Thequo
Inthesecondperiod,Shakespeare’sstyleandapproachbecamehighlyindividualized.Hewrotesixcomedies.Whichonedoesn’tbe
______providesthemainsourceofinfluenceonAmericannaturalism.
随机试题
下列各项中不属于具有控制权股权评估特点的是()。
Television,itisoftensaid,keepsone【C1】______aboutcurrentevents,allowsonetofollowthe【C2】______developmentinscience
清理呼吸道无效的相关因素不包括
下列哪项关于疾病监测的论述是错误的
孕妇尿中检出的激素,与胎儿胎盘功能关系最密切的是
某企业税后利润为13.4万元,所得税为6.6万元,利息费用为10万元,则该企业的利息保障倍数为()。
下列说法错误的组合是?()①刘律师是全国人大代表,他在各种会议上的发言和表决,不受法律追究。②小张今年18周岁,他有权作为选民去参加其所在的自治州的人民代表大会代表的选举投票。③地方性法规是指地方各级人民代表大会及其常务委员会依据宪法
某机械设备安装工程项目,业主拟通过招标确定施工承包商。业主经过资格预审确定了A、B、C、D、E、F六家投标人作为潜在投标人。这六家潜在投标人在投标时出现以下情况:投标人A在编制投标文件时,主要依据设计图纸、工程量表、其他投标人的投标书、有关的法律
以下不属于第一人称代词的是()。
要求如果x被7除余2,则输出x的值,下列语句中不能实现此功能的语句是( )。
最新回复
(
0
)