Palatalization in English: An Articulation Problem for Turkish Teacher Trainees

Abstract

In the field of teacher training, there is a scarcity of teaching pronunciation teaching methodology to cure the fossilized mistakes of teacher trainees and foreign language teachers on-the-job. A case study pertaining to this situation is handled for the first time in this article under the title of “Audio-articulation Method” (Demirezen, 2003; Hismanoglu, 2004). This method takes up a fossilized mistake of teacher trainees or teachers on-the-job in fifty minutes and brings in pronunciation correction by using tongue-twisters, idioms, proverbs, and the like. Thus, it cures the fossilized mistake to a grater extent by creating a higher awareness and improving communicative fluency. This method through task-based point of view removes the related fossilized mistake and brings in pronunciation betterment to the teacher trainees and the teachers on-the-job.