Awareness Survey

Aşağıda öğrencilerinizin İngilizce konuştukları muhataplarıyla empati kurmalarını sağlayacak anket soruları bulacaksınız. Bu soruları öğrencilerinizin "pronunciation" konusunu daha ciddi düşünmelerine imkan vermek için kullanabilirsiniz.


Bu anket soruları Joanne Keyworthy nin Teaching English Pronunciation kitabından alınmıştır.

Pronunciation Awareness Survey


1) Imagine you are talking in your own language with a foreigner. The person doesn't speak your language very well and is very difficult to understand. What do you do? Do you:

(a) pretend you understand even when you don't?

(b) ask him or her to repeat everything slowly and carefully?

(c) try to get away?


2) What do you say when the foreign speaker apologizes for his poor accent? Do you:

(a) tell him his accent is very good even when it isn't?

(b) tell him that his poor accent doesn't matter?

(c) tell him that his accent is very bad and that he must work hard to improve it?


3) How do you feel when a foreigner pronounces your name wrong?


(a) very angry

(b) it bothers me a little

(c) it bothers me a lot

(d) it doesn't bother me at all


4) How do you feel when you meet a foreigner who speaks your language with a very good accent?

(a) surprised

(b) pleased

(c) not surprised

(d) full of admiration

(e) don't care or think about it


5) In the future, who will you speak English to?

(a) mostly English people visiting my country who don't know my language

(b) mostly English-speaking people in this country (Britain, USA, etc.)

(c) mostly non-English people who don't know my language and whose language I don't know, so that we speak English together

(d) don't know


6) Do you think it is more important to have good pronunciation when:

(a) you are speaking English to English people?

(b) you are speaking English to non-English people?


7) Below are some situations. When is it most important to pronounce well? Put them in order of importance with a number if you want.

(a) speaking on the telephbne

(b) meeting someone for the first time

(c) talking to someone you know very well (a good friend) in an informal situation (e.g. at a party)