I have gone through the journal GUIDELINES-A Magazine for Language Teachers Feature Article volume 28 published in December 2006. The article by Ao Ran entitled Integrating Movies in to the Teaching of EFL Pronunciation was found interesting.
Author Ao Ran has been teaching English for over a decade. He has been included extensively in TEFL and teacher education in China and Singapore. He is a member of the Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics (SAAL) and his special interests are pronunciation, reading,vocabulary,curriculam and material developmentand sociolinguistics.
The author states that some EFL students may have the false impression that all English words are pronounced exactly as they are in the dictionaries when they occur in connected speech. Movie dialogues are good examples that help to raise students' awareness of the use of weak form in English.
After showing a movie dialogue twice or more times students underlines words which are pronounced in weak forms. Then four or five students are asked to present the words which are pronounced in weak forms. Then four or five students are asked to present the words they have underlined. The teacher then evaluates. Following the activity above students are given pieces of paper on which 'strong' and 'weak' forms of the underlined words are provided.
In this article Ao Ran has discussed some of the potential activities in which more audio clips and videos are integrated in to the teaching of English Pronunciation. With the growin population of Hollywood movies and increasing availbilities of technological devices using ICT in the ELT classroom is becoming more and more practicable.
