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4. Guided practice with feedback.5. Communicative practice with feedback.The purpose of the first step is to raise the language learner’s awareness or consciousnessof the different factors, both segmental and suprasegmentals, that affect the intelligibility ofspoken English. The second step provides opportunities to listen to and analyze speech withregard to the factors introduced in the first step one feature at a time. The third, fourth and fifthsteps provide practice and feedback beginning with controlled practice focusing on form andleading to free practice focusing on form and meaning.Goodwin (2001) also believes that we need to teach pronunciation in a systematic andprincipled way. She introduces an integrated whole-body approach to teaching pronunciationbased on the framework provided by researchers Celce-Murcia, Brinton & Goodwin (1996).Short videotaped interactions are shown which are then analyzed intensively by the studentslooking at suprasegmental features such as pausing, intonation and stress. Choral and individualrepetition of the lines by the students follows the analysis. Next the interaction is practiced inpairs and the teacher provides feedback. The teacher then videotapes the pairs’ performance andgives the tape to the students to review and analyze. For the final step, the students role play asimilar situation without a script to check to see if they can transfer the lesson to other situations.Within the realm of media and technology, Goodwin suggests that audio, video, computersoftware and the internet are resources that can be used in pronunciation training.Most researchers are now advocating that pronunciation be taught early in a student’slanguage studies and integrated into the whole language curriculum. One reason to integratepronunciation training into course work from beginner levels “is the fact that the differentphonological aspects can be recycled throughout the whole program” (Chela-Flores, 2001, p.118Memorias en extenso. Congreso Internacional de Idiomas 2012.