Current perspectives on pronunciation skill development

Abstract

Main problem: the article discusses the importance of modern methods used in the development of pronunciation skills in teaching English in Kazakh schools. Currently, in their practice, teachers are guided by four main areas: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. However, if we partially distinguish these skills, there are many auxiliary skills: pronunciation, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, punctuation... and much more. Here, the most important of these skills is the pronunciation skill, so the research work included providing the most effective modern methods aimed at developing students ' pronunciation skills, applying them on the basis of practice, and differentiating the result. Purpose: to determine the importance of pronunciation in a student's ability to speak a foreign language fluently and suggest ways to develop it using the ‘Ben Franklin’ exercise. Methods: descriptive, systematization and analytical methods were used in the course of the study. Results and their significance: the authors of the article identified the important role of pronunciation skills in the development of students 'fluency in English in the modern updated educational process of the country and proposed the Ben Franklin exercise, aimed at developing students' pronunciation skills in the process of teaching English. Within the framework of world education, English teachers are able to generalize the importance of a new type of technology for the development of any language competence of a student in the acquisition of a foreign language by a student. After all, changes in the progressive development of society lead to the introduction of new ideas and modern traditions in the content of Education.