PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS

PronPack 5: Pronunciation of English for Spanish Speakers provides materials for 18 lessons focusing on common difficulties faced by Spanish-speaking learners. It contains printable worksheets and teacher’s notes, plus audio files on a support website. The lessons attract learners’ attention with memorable activities including raps, games and puzzles.

The lessons focus on pronunciation features from individual sounds to syllables, word stress and sentence stress. Some lessons focus on important distinctions such as the difference between berry and very. Others focus on grammatical endings such as –ed and –s. There is attention to consonant clusters, both at the beginning and the ends of words. Word stress of English and Spanish is compared in words that both languages share such as elephant / elefante. The English use of contrastive stress is compared to the Spanish alternative of word order changes.