A set of activities to integrate English pronunciation to the communicative language teaching approach for Chilean high school students, in a practical and efective way

Abstract

In the environment of English Teaching as a Foreign Language in schools of our country, there is a wide tendency from teachers to try to make students to emulate the varieties of the language which are considered standard, being these Received Pronunciation and General American. Recent research in the area proves that these conceptions offer more difficulties for the students, in order to solve that a new standard called Lingua Franca Core is proposed, reinforcing the communicative purpose over the correctness in pronunciation. The present research intends to offer a set of activities focused on this standard contextualizing it with the national reality.