pronunciation drills
Articulation practice sessions
Pronunciation drills are repetitive exercises designed to improve spoken accuracy in a language.
A learner might repeat a sound, word, or phrase multiple times until the mouth learns the motion: The class did pronunciation drills on the "th" sound.
Common in language instruction, they target sounds that don't exist in the learner's native tongue.
- repetitionAct of redoing
- drill exercisesRepeated practice sessions
- accentRegional speech pattern
- tongue twistersPhrases difficult to articulate quickly
- intonationPitch variation in speech
foreign accent · stress patterns · word stress · shadowing · phonetics · vowel · phoneme · vocal warm-ups · articulation · enunciation · clear speech · IPA · diction · breath control · oral · listening · practice · native
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Absorbing text without vocalizing
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