The Pronunciation activities in World Link do
not aim to make students sound like native speakers. Rather, they aim to make
students' pronunciation sound natural and comprehensible to a wide international
audience. Research has found that teaching suprasegmental features, rather than
individual sounds, is the most effective approach for this goal. World Link's
pronunciation syllabus focuses on suprasegmental features such as word stress,
sentence stress, rhythm, intonation, reduced forms, and linking.