Basic steps in teaching individual sounds

• Show the diagram
• Explain how the articulators work while making the sound
• Model the correct pronunciation
• Do some listening discrimination exercises
• Practice the sound using familiar vocabulary
• Practice the sound in different positions (at the beginning, middle and end of the word)
• Practice the sound in a sentence
  
  
  

Dodson, Margaret et al. The English as a Second Language Tutor Training Manual (Regina: The Regina
Public Library, 1988)