This text advocates a new approach to pronunciation teaching goal is mutual intelligibility among non-native speakers imitating native speakers. It should be of interest to all teachers of English as an international language.
1. The background : Changing patterns in the use of English
2. The variation problem 1 : Inter-speaker variation
3. The variation problem 2 : Intra-speaker variation
4. Intelligbility in interlanguage talk
5. The role of transfer in determining the phonological core
6. Pedagogic priorities 1 : Identifying the phonological core
7. Pedagogic priorities 2 : Negotiating intelligibility in the ELT
8. Proposals for pronunciation teaching for EIL