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    The document provides guided questions to help students learn about vowels and their pronunciation. It asks students to define key terms related to vowels, reflect on their own experiences with vowel sounds, and address some common pronunciation challenges for language learners. Specifically, it asks students to define terms like vowels, diphthongs, and vowel quadrants. It asks about difficulties students had with vowels and how teachers may have helped. It also asks students to consider typical difficulties Brazilian learners face and how they would address the pronunciation of specific words like "dance" and the sounds in "pill" and "peel" for another student.

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    The document provides guided questions to help students learn about vowels and their pronunciation. It asks students to define key terms related to vowels, reflect on their own experiences with vowel sounds, and address some common pronunciation challenges for language learners. Specifically, it asks students to define terms like vowels, diphthongs, and vowel quadrants. It asks about difficulties students had with vowels and how teachers may have helped. It also asks students to consider typical difficulties Brazilian learners face and how they would address the pronunciation of specific words like "dance" and the sounds in "pill" and "peel" for another student.

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    Guided Study - Vowels

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    The document provides guided questions to help students learn about vowels and their pronunciation. It asks students to define key terms related to vowels, reflect on their own experiences with vowel sounds, and address some common pronunciation challenges for language learners. Specifically, it asks students to define terms like vowels, diphthongs, and vowel quadrants. It asks about difficulties students had with vowels and how teachers may have helped. It also asks students to consider typical difficulties Brazilian learners face and how they would address the pronunciation of specific words like "dance" and the sounds in "pill" and "peel" for another student.

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    Based on what you read about Vowels, answer the questions below:
    1) Write a brief definition for the following key terms from the texts read. Give examples:
     Vowel:
    - Vowel + glide
    - Diphthong
     Vowel quadrant:
    - Front/centrall/back
    - High/mid/low
    - Rounded/spread/neutral lip position
    - Single vowel
    - Triphthong
    2) Answer based on your experience:
    - What difficulties with vowel sounds did you have?
    - If you had language instruction, did the teacher try to help you with pronunciation? If so,
    how?
    - What are the typical difficulties for Brazilian to pronounce vowels? Give examples of
    misunderstanding. Justify your answer.
    3) What technique would you use or what explanation would you give for these classroom
    situations?
    - A student says: “When I learned English in my country, the teacher taught us to pronounce
    dance as /dɑns/. But I hear most Americans pronounce it /dæns/. Which is correct? Justify
    your answer.
    - As a teacher, what technique would you use or what explanation would you give for the
    following situation in your classroom: A student cannot distinguish pill and peel and
    produces /pIl/ for both.
    4) Give two examples for each one:

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