Word Stress: Adult ESL Pronunciation Activities for Teaching Word Stress Fluency

Word stress plays a huge part in English intelligibility; it can be very difficult for people to understand speech with the word stress is misplaced or lacking. In this video, the teacher uses visual and hands-on activities as she introduces beginning level learners to the concept word stress and leads the class through a series of activities designed to 1) develop awareness of syllables and word stress, 2) produce accurate word stress patterns for weekly vocabulary words, and 3) group vocabulary words according to their stress to encourage pattern recognition.
The activities in this video can be used with any topic, and adapted for low beginning to high intermediate level learners.
For more classroom instructional videos, visit the Minnesota Literacy Council website at mnliteracy.org/classroomvideos.

[@mimishkaz]

All my love for that old Asian man in the classroom. We're never too old to learn!

[@dido2341]

These techniques are a wonderful addition to my ESL tutoring toolkit. Thank you!

[@neeceteacher9664]

Using rubber bands in the first exercise was a great idea! Definitely something that I would like to add to my toolkit for my adult learners. Thank you for sharing!

[@karolewatson1336]

This was an excellent lesson!!! Esp the last activity, it just tied everything together perfectly

[@comradepat]

Excellent!

[@Sureshkumar-zu4ie]

Great video

[@xiner3000]

I like it. Very useful

[@liasmith1559]

a brilliant lesson...does the instructor have any thoughts on duration of practice? Is it possible to fatigue muscles to the point that overflow muscles take over and the learner slips back into old patterns?

[@jerryw4881]

Please more videos...thanks.

[@salvadormonteagudo4694]

thanks/gracias/merci /irigato "TEA-cher"

[@namebp]

Now please teach native speakers who don’t speak English.