Abstract
The importance of correct English pronunciation is growing due to its central role in communication and the speaker’s identity. Non-native English speakers lack a natural linguistic environment and tend to carry articulation rules and intonation from their mother tongue. Modern conditions of the fast-paced world require a revision of the forms and methods of the educational process. Teachers should engage students in independent and individual work at classes, increase the use of practical and research tasks. Information technologies in the teaching process at different levels of education (both school and university) change the roles of all participants in the educational process. Thus, teachers are given more opportunities to improve their work, and students are taught a foreign language at a higher level. The article aims to state the advantages of using multimedia technologies as an educational tool in teaching English practical phonetics and to find out university students’ attitude to it. The object of the research is the benefits of working in a language laboratory, equipped with Rinel-Lingo (a multimedia language programme to train phonetics of a foreign language of university students). The article analyzes the results of the survey conducted in Murmansk arctic state university.
Highlights
This article is motivated by the topicality of the problem of teaching English phonetics with the help of multimedia technologies
One of the main difficulties of mastering English phonetics is the lack of a natural linguistic environment at Russian educational institutions and the necessity to create the artificial one
We have conducted a survey in order to evaluate the benefits of using the Rinel-Lingo programme in teaching English Practical phonetics to second-year students of Murmansk arctic state university
Summary
This article is motivated by the topicality of the problem of teaching English phonetics with the help of multimedia technologies. The primary aim of this article is to illustrate some strategies and results of teaching practical phonetics of the English language with the help of multimedia technologies. Using these tools at English classes helps master language competence and intercultural communication of students. The normal functioning of oral speech activity in dialogical and monological form can be successful (can help exchange information and gain mutual understanding) in terms of the formation of stable norms of pronunciation and phonation culture of both communicating partners. An internally formed thought is externally voiced with the help of phonetic and phonation skills, verbal and non-verbal means in any speech activity
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