Teaching English Pronunciation to Secondary School Students : -ed Endings

Abstract

This project presents an improvement of education based on the practicum, an internship in a high-school. During this time, I observed how pronunciation is taught and the students’ pronunciation. Hence, during the observation period I realised that it was necessary to improve students’ most common mistakes with pronunciation. Therefore, this paper focuses on teaching the pronunciation of – ed endings. The study was conducted with students of 1st of Bachillerato at Mater Dei school. The main objectives were to persuade them of the importance of pronunciation in a globalised world as well as to improve their pronunciation of – ed endings. The results shown in this research prove that through different sort of activities, most of the students improved their pronunciation of –ed endings.