Like us, you might already use songs in class, and find that your students enjoy them. But have you considered choosing songs specifically to work on pronunciation?

If you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa.

An advanced student of mine speaks both clearly and usually correctly, but can often sound over formal and at times stilted.

Sentence stress is a difficult area to work on for learners and teachers alike. For this reason it's also an area which is often neglected, but this aspect of the language can cause problems for learners in both their speaking and perhaps more importantly listening.