SPEAKING TEST

• Pronunciation is key to getting a high score in IELTS speaking because it can either enhance or damage your entire performance. If the examiner can't understand what you're saying, it doesn't really matter how strong your fluency, grammar or vocabulary are.
• Pronunciation individually holds a 25% weightage in IELTS Speaking score along with 25% of Fluency and Coherence, 25% of Lexical Range and Accuracy and 25% of grammatical accuracy.

HOW TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION

To improve your pronunciation, you have to work on the following:

• Individual sounds : In order to be easily understood by the examiner you must first master all the individual sounds in the phonetic chart.
• Word Stress : Each word has a number of syllables and some of these are emphasised are more than others, giving each word its own stress pattern.
• Sentence Stress : Within each sentence certain words or syllables are emphasised more than others, often the words that carry the most meaning.
• Weak Sounds : Other words in a sentence change so that they sound weaker than normal.This also helps with your fluency.
• Linking Words : When native speakers talk they often join certain words together, known as connected speech.
• Intonation : This is the natural rise and fall in tone that can indicate how someone feels about the words that they are saying.

HOW TO GET RID OF MTI:

• Regular Speaking of English words: Best ways to work on your MTI issues is to keep using English words in the actual tone. When you listen to One of the any word, carefully listen to it on how the word is pronounced and in the tone. In the initial stage, this could be difficult, but as you keep talking, you will certainly keep improving on your word usage.


• Learn correct Intonation and English Rhythm: You know you have a strong Mother Tongue Influence, and when you speak with wrong intonation and English rhythm, a person will certainly have a hard time understanding you. Therefore, the best way is to correct your intonation and rhythm. With the help of English trainer, you can correct your issues by regular practices. The main thing is to make the person understand what you speak.


• Keep Reading: Be it the novel, newspaper or journal, to make your MTI issue solved, the best is to keep reading, that too in high volume. This will help you to find new words and use them the right way. The best is to record what you read and make it listen to your trainer who will guide you. If there is any correction needed in your pronunciation or tone, the trainer will correct it.


• Daily English Communication: One of the best ways to make your English sound fluent and MTI issue solved is to communicate in English daily. Speak to your colleagues, friends and even to your English learning partner. Daily communication will help to bring down the MTI effect. Moreover, it will help you to speak confidently in English.


• Listen and watch English songs and movies: Movies and songs have a huge impact on us. Therefore, when you watch or listen to English movies or songs, it can affect our communication since we try to imitate the language. So one way of improving your English fluency and MTI issues to keep listening to English songs and try singing it. Similarly, watch English movies to know the accent and words. This will have a great impact on your English fluency.


• Record your own voice for Pronunciation: As you keep practicing, do keep recording to listen to your pronunciation. This will help you to correct and know how well you are improving. Make it listen to your trainer and friends who will review and give feedback. Take this feedback sportingly and improve on your mistakes.


• Personalized Training: One of the reasons to take up English speaking course is trainers offer personalized training to learners. Whether taking up online or offline English training courses, you get personalized training to make your English sound perfect and remove the MTI issue. The trainer will keenly listen to your words and correct it for perfect pronunciation.


• Offer Learning Materials: Trainers will help you with learning materials including podcasts to learn pronunciation and to shed the mother tongue influence. Follow on what material they offer and accordingly practice the same. The ultimate aim of the trainer is to make your learning easy and fast.