Pronunciation is not "how to pronounce a word" but "learning and practicing how to make and connect sounds by becoming aware of the muscles involved and giving them opportunities to learn and to develop.

Overview:

Pronunciation as a physical activity. Practice like any other physical activity.

Exploring

Experiencing

Giving the speech production muscles opportunities to explore and learn.

Sentences are Words Together - Pronunciation is Words Apart

Later speed.

Later natural flow.

Approach:

"Develop your ear".. listen for the sounds produced.

Natural feedback mechanism to adjust the sounds produced.

Speech Production Muscles Exercises and Opportunities to Experience:

Summary: Slowly; Each Word Events; Emphasize, Lengthen; Imagine; Relaxation.

1. Speak slowly (maybe).
2. Put an equal and empty space between each word.
3. Give special attention to the consonants.
4. Emphasize the beginning sounds and the ending sounds of each word.
5. Emphasize the hard consonants.
6. Exaggerate the sounds and develop awareness of the speech production.
7. Think about precision.
8. Relaxation and Calm.

Reading Backwards - demonciation

This is a technique to help with giving each word space while reading a text out loud. Reading something in reverse order breaks the flow of the sentences and you automatically separate the words, gaining more time to focus on the muscle movements associated with speech and pronunciation.

Example:

Text:

In tooting two tutors astute

Tried to tute a duke on a flute

But duets so gruelling

End only in duelling

When tutors astute toot the flute

Read it like this: