摘要：AbstractIn our modern and digital world, learning English at the upper-intermediate and the advanced levels is inevitable necessity for everybody to learn in terms of every skill, such as, speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Pronunciation, in particular, has been neglected in English teaching at the primary, secondary, and high state schools in Turkey. Neither teachers who teach English nor students who are willing to learn English give more importance to pronunciation owing to different articulations that are unavailable in Turkish language. This issue predominantly arises from the completely different language families to which Turkish and English languages are members. The main articulation problems that Turkish learners encounter are diphthongs, the voiced, and the unvoiced “th” sounds. In the syntax structure of Turkish language, two vowels are hardly ever in juxtaposition. So, Turkish learners are used to articulating the word forming monophthong sound because of the structure of Turkish language.The pronunciation problems for Turkish learners are not entirely limited to either the diphthongs or the voiced and unvoiced “th” sounds. In addition to those, the great majority of Turkish teachers teaching English at the state secondary, and high schools are beyond giving importance to the listening ability in which the consonant assimilation plays a significant role for learners to comprehend the sounds that they encounter in listening activities. As for one of the examples of how we can overcome the issue of some diphthongs’ articulation, we can put our sign finger to the front of our lips before we start the articulation of the diphthongs such as “go” or “home”, the lips should push the finger forward during the articulation of “go” or “home”. Otherwise, it means that it is not the accurate articulation for the sounds of “go” and “home”, as two examples of the diphthongs.I am going to put forward the issues of diphthongs in English for Turkish learners and present the ways, and techniques for the students in my classroom that they put the techniques and the ways that are taught into practice to overcome the articulation problems of the diphthongs by the power point presentation.
