ORTHOEPICAL LITERACY AS AN IMPORTANT CONSTITUENT OF PEDAGOGICAL SKILL

Abstract

Pedagogical skill is a multisided and changeable phenomena. School and university teachers are people who not only
teach others, but always ready to study themselves. They usually perfect oneself different aspects of their professional
skill. But under different conditions teacher’s verbal communication is their means of influence the audience. It’s an example
which pupils want to imitate. Such teacher can gather a lot of students. The speech of some teachers can attract students,
but others are not pleasant to listen. Pedagogical skill is complex phenomena, but speaker’s abilities are the most
important here.
One of the factors which form a speech is orthoepical literacy. It’s regulated by orthoepy as science about correct
literary pronunciation.
The aim of article’s investigation is to learn how the teacher’s orthoepical literacy can influence the formation their
professional skill. The article also learns some factors of orthoepical literacy and underline their role in the professional
teacher’s verbal communication.
This article analyses correct pronunciation of sounds, normal stress of the words, pauses, intonation and rate. All these
aspects let to reach high level of education. The teachers should to hold norms of literary pronunciation. Teacher-speaker
can influence the students if he (or she) skilful puts in order accent, uses different pauses and intonations. Teacher’s
orthoepical literacy let him to be competitive on a job market. St gives ability to be actual, important, interesting.
Key words: orthoepy, pedagogical literacy, pronunciation, pauses, rate, intonation.