THE IMPORTANCE OF PRONUNCIATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Keywords:
pronunciation, goal, importance, role, communicationAbstract
English pronunciation is one of the most difficult skills to acquire and learners should spend lots of time to improve their pronunciation. This article reviews some of the important issues of English pronunciation instruction. The aims of this article are to define the term pronunciation, explain the importance of pronunciation instruction.
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