Every English teacher has to juggle multiple tasks in order to make their
students competent users of the language being taught. Pronunciation is just
one of those tasks, alongside grammar (morphology and syntax), vocabulary (including collocational material and the connotations of important
words), idioms, pragmatics (how to apologise, how to greet someone, how to
make polite requests, and how to engage in small talk) and more general
skills, which may include guessing in context, reading a new writing system,
carrying on a conversation and things which do not even feel like ‘skills’ such
as improving self-confidence. In every single one of these areas, there is more