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Filipinos are good speakers of English. Filipinos can communicate fluently and be understood bymanyforeigners.EventhoughFilipinosareknowntohaveasweetspotinspeakingEnglish,still, manyforeignersfailtounderstandlotsoftheirspokenwordsandaretooaccentedtospeakduetothe influenceoftheirnativelanguage.Theresearcherfindsitanissueandwouldliketothinkofthebest approach to fit the teaching of pronunciation in the Philippine education system. This paper synthesizes the idea of promoting the teaching of comprehensibility and intelligibility in L2 pronunciation.ThispaperelaboratesontheneedtopresstheseapproachesinanEnglishclassroom. Thecollectedinformationpresentedinthispaperhasbeengeneralizedtotwo:thenativenessapproach inteachingL2pronunciationandtheintelligibilityprinciples.Theanalysisconcludesthatapplying theintelligibilityteachingapproachasapedagogyforL2learners’pronunciationclasses.Inaddition, thispaperlikestospecifytheneedsofexecutingthisapproachtothefirstyearsofeducationinthe Philippines. Since the first years of learning hold the foundation years that can powerfully and significantlyaffectthestudents'learningattitude,itisessentialtopinpointthatthisapproachismore suitedforthem.Thus,thispaperrecommendsthatthesaidapproachisbeneficialtopromotingthe students'pronunciation.Lastly,theresearcherwouldliketoexhortfutureresearcherstomakelearning materialspromotingthecomprehensibilityandintelligibilityapproachinteachingpronunciation
Mark Anthony Reyes Aguion. (2022) Intelligible and Comprehensible Approaches in Teaching Pronunciation in the First YearsofStudyingEnglishinthe Philippines, Linguistic Forum - A Journal of Linguistics, Volume 4, issue 1.
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