Phonetics Instruction for Special Needs Students: Effective English Teaching Strategies

Abstract

The research work is aimed to contribute the inclusive education in Kazakhstan and to teach English language to children with special needs effectively. The proposal will be demonstrated by the help of the activity “a picture speaks thousand words”, by Pecha Kucha Method. Each picture supports a child to understand and perceive the target information. The originality of the research is in practical and objective results in using this method during the real lessons with a girl with cerebral palsy. It is about how this method influenced to develop her pronunciation and speaking by the help of the English sounds. The significance of this topic is giving opportunity to disabled English learners to gain the language skills as well as other typical children. Unfortunately, nowadays such group of unusual students has not been teaching in deserving conditions. That is why this method is recommended not only for ESL teachers, but also for speech therapists.