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A Review of Beyond Repeat After Me: Teaching Pronunciation to English Learners
Yoshida, M. T. (2016). Beyond repeat after me: Teaching pronunciation to English learners. Alexandria, VA: TESOL Press.
Editors ' Note: ORTESOL would like to thank TESOL Press for providing this book free of charge.
"Repeat after me" used to be heard frequently in ESL or EFL classes. Students repeated after their teachers, trying to sound like them without knowing what they were doing. Back in the old days, from my personal experiences, it was very common that teachers did not spend a lot of time teaching pronunciation and could not explain how the English sounds were produced or why they sounded a certain way. Since the 1990s, the different approaches and methods of teaching pronunciation have been actively discussed, and currently one of the most prominent approaches is the Morley approach, which focuses more on three dimensions of learning: intellectual involvement, affective involvement, and physical or performative involvement (Morley, 1991). This book, Beyond Repeat After Me: Teaching Pronunciation to English Learners, is based on Morley's approach. Marla Tritch Yoshida, whose experience includes over 28 years of English language teaching and teacher training, wrote...