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The concept of ‘top-down’ pronunciation teaching is revisited after 30 years, when my article ‘Teaching Pronunciation from the Top Down’ was published by RELC Journal. The notion of ‘top-down’ teaching of pronunciation is reviewed as presented in the original article and then reconsidered in the light of matters of identity, multilingualism, imitation and empathy, and contextualized teaching of pronunciation.
Martha C. Pennington (Sun,) studied this question.