The teaching of pronunciation plays a crucial role in second language learning and has, in
fact, become an integral part of almost any language course. Good pronunciation is
indeed indispensable for adequate communication in a foreign language and is, moreover,
to a large extent responsible for one's first impression of a learner's L2 competence. The
importance of pronunciation teaching is even more strikingly obvious in the context of
language teaching at university level, which involves the training of future language
teachers. While teaching methods have considerably evolved over the years with the focus
of interest having shifted somewhat more to suprasegmentals (Dalton and Seidlhofer,
1994), pronunciation teaching is still an area which is experienced as problematic by both
teachers and learners