Going beyond “listen and repeat” and discrimination activities: Ways of teaching pronunciation to ESO and Bachillerato students by using songs

Abstract

Many general EFL textbooks addressed to Spanish secondary and post-secondary education learners continue to teach pronunciation in an isolated way, by means of tables or sections which are clearly separated from the parts which focus on the teaching of other language areas. Moreover, in spite of the large list of materials and resources currently available for teaching pronunciation in an engaging and motivating way, these materials still resemble traditional techniques, failing on many occasions to move away from isolated drills of random words and discrimination tasks. The present article hence aims at describing some ideas and activities for teaching pronunciation in an integrated, and, most importantly, in an engaging and motivating way for students. Although the activities included here have been explicitly designed for high-school students, they could easily be adapted to make them suitable for younger learners or even adult EFL students.