The final unit was the systems of language, which are divided into three:

vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. For me it was a very interesting

unit, for I consider pronunciation to be a very relevant aspect when

teaching a language.

I learnt that, since one of the main purposes as ESL teachers is that our

students achieve an acceptable and useful level of the language, we

should teach pronunciation through the communicative approach. CLT

invites our students to interact between them so they develop the

appropriate skills in order to communicate with other people outside the

safe atmosphere of the classroom, focusing on the importance of

imitating and learning from native speakers, a lot of practice and the use

of chunks of speech as a much more natural way of learning the

language.

I was actually very glad to learn more about this approach indirectly,

considering that is one of the approaches I would like to put into practice

with my students once I am a teacher. I also believe that learning from

my classmates was a very engaging activity because I reflected my work

on theirs; hence, I was able to identify the most significant ideas and

create a perspective of my own.

To conclude, I have to admit that even though I am quite aware that

teaching pronunciation in our schools is a very complicated goal to

achieve, I consider that we as future teachers of English should always

foster a better level of language proficiency in our students through the

exposure of the varied systems of the language.

Camila Cuevas A.