THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For generations, mastering English pronunciation has remained a challenge for most students in Kerala\u2019s government and aided schools. While classrooms taught grammar and vocabulary, opportunities to hear and practise correct pronunciation were often few and far between. <\/p>\n
For 13-year-old Advaith S, a Class VIII student at a government school on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, one lesson changed the way he approached English. He had never realised that pronouncing the letter \u2018p\u2019 required a tiny burst of air. Until recently, \u2018p\u2019 was just another alphabet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For generations, mastering English pronunciation has remained a challenge for most students in Kerala\u2019s government and aided schools. While classrooms taught grammar and vocabulary, opportunities to hear and practise correct pronunciation were often few and far between. For 13-year-old Advaith S, a Class VIII student at a government school on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, one lesson changed the way he approached English. He had never realised that pronouncing the letter \u2018p\u2019 required a tiny burst of air. Until recently, \u2018p\u2019 was just another alphabet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023668,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023636\/revisions\/1023668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}