Teaching and Learning Pronunciation in ESL/EFL Classes of Bangladesh

Abstract

The main concern of this paper is to explore the approach of teaching pronunciation at tertiary level in Bangladesh. Like other ESL countries, students' poor pronunciation becomes the cause of anxiety for the teachers. Importance of teaching pronunciation cannot be denied because, our students are mostly from Bengali medium where achieving good pronunciation is neglected. So, at tertiary level, ESL teachers should help their students to develop their pronunciation skills. Without learning correct pronunciation other aspects of English language like grammar, vocabulary become useless. This present study aims to find out the difficulties that teachers and students face in learning and teaching pronunciation at tertiary level in Bangladesh. For the study purpose questionnaire survey was conducted with a view to knowing teachers' point of view. To know the students' point of view, Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was arranged in Dhaka. The participants were the students of different universities of Bangladesh.