Pronunciation Training to

Prepare Students
for Oral Communication at the
San Cristbal
Language Department, Unach.

By Alexis Martnez
 The problem

mother tongue interference.

teachers do not prioritize
the pronunciation matter
most of the classes are in
Spanish
There is not enough
practice of L2 or
pronunciation techniques
 Justification

aims to show different dynamic, effectiveness

and awareness of the oral language
why students tend to have the interference of
their mother language leading to bad
communication.
benefit students from the Language
Department of the Unach.
teachers can result benefit from this
strategies, if they apply it properly in the
Languag.e Department courses
 Method; Action
Research

Finally, Cohen and Manion (1994:

186) define it as a small-scale
intervention in the functioning of
the real world and a close
examination of the effects of
such an intervention.
 Model

To do action research is to plan, act, observe

and reflect more carefully, more systematically,
and more rigorously than one usually does in
everyday life. Kemmis and McTaggart
(1992:10).
 This study was completed in one cycle aimed
to present the improvement of learners
pronunciation through training at the San
Cristobal Language Department, UNACH and
to see if and how language learning strategies
instruction contributed to their improvement.
Learners participated in the training and
reflected on their improvement.
 Hypothesis

Training students in pronunciation can

facilitate students oral communication.

Overall Aim

To train students in pronunciation as a way to

prepare them for oral communication.
 Objectives/ Goals

To design and apply a pronunciation-based syllabus.

To apply and observe the impact of the

interventions.

To assess the effectiveness of the pronunciation

training through students oral performance.

To contrast the suitability of the pronunciation

training.
 Time

The beginning of the research study is going to

begin in ocotober, and is going to stop around
at the mid of November, and the research is
going to finish with all the requirements as
well.
 Place

The action research project

will take place at
Universidad Autnoma de
Chiapas Campus III (UNACH),
specifically in the Language
Department, where English
courses takes place
 Participants

The participants of this research will be the

students attending third level in this school two
different groups A and B

A: 8 students, 5 women 3 men

B: 4 students, 3 women 1 man

The teacher in charge is Mara Emilia Ochoa Setzer

 Tools to collect data

Observations
Questionnaires: initial and final
Teachers diary: Observing and
reflecting
Oral test
Pedagogical Interventions
 Annex 1

Chronogram
Months August Septemb October Novembe December January
Week 1 2 er 1 2 r 1 2 3 1 2 3
3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 4 4
3 4 3 4
PROBLEM * * *
*
JUSTIFICATION * * *
*
RESEARCH * * *
QUESTIONS *

METHOD * * *
*
TIME,PLACE & * * *
PARTICIPANTS *

DATA * *
INTERVIEW *
DESING * *
SURVEY *
(T.DIARY,
INTERVENTION *
S,
OBSERVATIONS
, ETC)
 Literature review

Communication and communicability

Intelligibility
Language skills
IPA
Teaching models
Language teaching
Analsis of Information
Frequencia de Uso de ejercicios de pronunciacion

a) siempre b) usualmente c) a veces d) raramente e) nunca

 Cmo te ensean la pronunciacin?
Chart Title

70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
te han enseado como se representan los sonidos?

a) si b) no
c) no me acuerdo
 Frequencia de correccin

e) nunca

d) raramente

c) a veces

b) usualmente

a) siempre

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4

 the best thing of this vest is
the color
 Annexes

Questionnaires
Ts diary reports
Authentic material
Test (assessment)
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