Contrastive Linguistic Analysis as a Key to Effective Foreign Pronunciation Teaching
Learning foreign languages is gaining prominence in the global world of today. To meet the needs of those mastering foreign pronunciation, new teaching techniques are required. The author argues that the method of Contrastive
Linguistic Analysis (CLA) is appropriate for creating customizable manuals on L2 phonetics for L1 native speakers. CLA enables to rank negative transfer mistakes according to their frequency of occurrence; the resulting
scale can be used as a basis for developing phonetic courses of any level of detail. In this paper, main principles and procedures of the method are conveyed and exemplified in results of CLA applied to German and Russian
consonant sound systems.