n, at least according to some research. The teacher's ole should be more that of
a coach in that he shoul serve as the model for pronunciation, encourage his or
her students, point out their errors and adjust to the students' needs. This is
an approach that ha been covered in the Communicative Language Teaching, where
the majority of communication in the classroom is among the students and the tea
cher is there to give instructions and aid the expression/understanding of his o
r her students. This drastically increases the student speaking time, offering t
hem more practice and more spoken material to focus on, either through observati
on or through production.
We've been dealing with pronunciation for some time now, but...