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The main objective of this portfolio is to notably improve the pronunciation and sounds of words to help the development and listening comprehension, through exercises, audios, etc., which allow to reduce these deficiencies and be an enriching learning process.

For this reason, this portfolio will help me generate positive change in the short term and transform those mistakes into opportunities for improvement.

Formal education and significant incidence

In your past, which educational experiences where most meaningful in pronunciation learning?

I feel that in my past educational experiences that have been significant or have helped me improve my pronunciation have been my autonomy and some teachers who have corrected and taught me the correct way to pronounce words.

Which were the least meaningful? Why?

In my school the experience with English and pronunciation was not very significant since the teaching was not practical or dynamic, it was basic English and even so, they did not give feedback when a word was mispronounced.

What have you learned about yourself as to the type of learner you are?

I have learned that I am a disciplined student, constant  I like to improve every day, set goals, and above all train myself to improve my level of English and the pronunciation of words that I do not know.

In what types of situation(s) do you learn pronunciation best?

I feel that I can improve and learn pronunciation better through apps because I can listen to sentences and practice the pronunciation of unknown words, also through movies or some podcasts.

Informal learning, skills, and abilities

What other previous experience(s) have you had outside the formal classroom setting in which you have learned pronunciation?

I have learned autonomously, watching videos of native speakers, in free courses that I look for on platforms or apps to improve pronunciation.

Goals

How do you relate the learning of pronunciation with your future goals —personal, professional, and educational?

Improving my pronunciation is one of the goals I want to meet to have good communication with other people.

- Personally, having good pronunciation can help me relate to other people, learn about their cultures.

- Professionally, the pronunciation will open doors for me to get a good job, grow cognitively and acquire new knowledge.

- In education, pronunciation allows me to share my knowledge with the children of my practices teaching them the use and correct pronunciation of words that they do not understand so that they can improve their listening skills.

What things stand in the way of your accomplishing these goals?

It may be a lack of dedication or time. However, by putting in all my effort and practicing I can improve my pronunciation.

Formal education and significant incidence

Do you consider pronunciation is important? Why? Explain your answer considering your teaching career and personal life.

The pronunciation is very important and more in the teaching of English or even in the teaching of another language, because if the words are mispronounced, this causes that there is not a good communication with other people and that they do not understand what they want to express. . Therefore, it is essential to pronounce consonants and vowels well and more so when you are a teacher because students follow our example and must be given correct information for their learning process.

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WEEK 1

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Evidence- Differences between [ʃ] [tʃ]

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Evidence- Vowel [ʌ]
Exercise and recording

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Evidence: Song (Upper Room)
Weak pronunciation [ə]

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Evidence: Mispronunciation of letters 'a' in words.
Exercise in the page "Agenda web"

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WEEK 2

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Evidence: Triphthong [aʊə]
Exercises in the page "Agenda web"

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Evidence: Differences between [ʃ] [tʃ] Tongue twister

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Evidence: Vowel [ʌ]
App "Lyrics training" Song

This application is very interesting because you can listen to your favorite song and at the same time, you can review the lyrics of the song, acquire more vocabulary and improve pronunciation. This application has several levels and you can choose the level that you like the most.

Enlace: https://es.lyricstraining.com/

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WEEK 3

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Evidence: Mispronunciation of letters 'a' in words.

Tongue twister

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Evidence: Weak pronunciation [ə]
Song recording

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Evidence- Differences between [ʃ] [tʃ]- Story

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Evidence:  Triphthong [aʊə]
Agenda web

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Evidence: Vowel [ʌ]  Dialogue, recording

PDF of the exercises
Link: https://www2.vobs.at/ludescher/pdf%20files/pronunciation%20exercises.pdf

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Evidence: Weak pronunciation [ə]
Tongue twister, Recording

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These weeks that I was working on the portfolio I felt that I had an improvement, there were little words that it was difficult for me to pronounce but thanks to these exercises, it is no longer so complicated. Even so, I will continue practicing with these exercises that I capture here and with other resources that allow me to obtain satisfactory results to improve my learning process.
I have learned to detect my shortcomings and thanks to that, I have been able to enjoy making this portfolio to the fullest, to make use of virtual resources, take advantage of it, and the most important thing is that I have enjoyed this process and it has been very useful for my personal life.