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Speaking is one of the principal skills, but it is also the most difficult one to learn.

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Teachers play an important role to develop students' speaking skill.

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Teachers have to promote oral fluency and different strategies so students can speak in class.

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Make shy students talk in class is a challenge. That is why teachers have to find out different ways or activities to make them talk.

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Teachers play a role as organizers, motivators, and models.

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Good pronunciation is not sounding like a native speaker. It is speaking in a way that both native and nonnative  speakers can understand without too much effort.

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Teaching pronunciation involves word stress, sentence stress, intonation, and word linking. To teach pronunciation, we need to understand three aspects of speech:

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It includes hearing, listening, seeing, and feeling. Lips, tongue, throat, vocal cords, sinuses, and facial muscles are parts of the speech system.

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It needs time to listen, process, and form an answer.

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It comes through experiences from different contexts and teaching prediction strategies.

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Cook (2001) suggested several techniques for teaching and learning English pronunciation. They are the use of phonetic transcript, imitation, discrimination of sounds, and communication.

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They help students to focus on different types of pronunciations.

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The best way to pronounce the words correctly is by listening to a lot of English.

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They help to learn the stress and intonation of the words.

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Students are afraid to make mistakes so, it is a good idea that they record themselves to get confidence.

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Some applications may be helpful for students to listen and repeat words, dialogues or sentences. It helps them to practice different pronunciations.

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Give students some minutes to talk to a partner or in groups so, they can talk about things they like. Try to give them interesting topics.

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Ask students to read magazines or newspapers a day before the class. When they come to class, they have to report what they read.

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Shows students a set of pictures. Ask students to tell the story based on the sequence of the pictures.

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Prepare a list of topics that students will be able to talk about and divide the class into two groups. Give each student a statement that they have to respond for 50 seconds. While the student is answering, the other group has to listen and check the grammatical and vocabulary mistakes. The team that corrects and identifies the errors will obtain a point.

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The most important thing is making the students feel comfortable. Do not correct them in front of their classmates. Make them feel comfortable so they can start speaking with confidence.

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https://www.academia.edu/28566163/The_Role_of_EFL_Teachers_in_Improving_EFL_Learners_English_Pronunciation

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322112785_The_Role_of_Teachers_in_Developing_Learners'_Speaking_Skill#:~:text=Speaking%20skill%20is%20considered%20to,important%20skill%20by%20language%20learners.&text=Thus%2C%20the%20primary%20job%20of,English%20speaking%20people%2C%20if%20possible.

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