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Pronunciation and speaking have a close relationship each because when students pronunciate unconfidently they will lose confidence in speaking. Moreover in speaking we need both accurecy and fluency so the Using Technology to Teach Speaking and Pronunciation Skills is very necessary. According to Chi-Fen Emily Chen In speaking we use the computer technology to create an environment that encourages communication and provides increased and more varied communicative opportunities for students to utilize their oral skills. Because when you use computers Teachers need to draw on more than one approach and use a variety of instructional tools, such as audiotapes, videos, and multimedia computer technology, to meet different students’ needs in teaching speaking skills. That makes your lessons more interesting and active we have more situations for students practise.Teachers and students can access many websites for learning speaking that they can have more materials for learning.They can communicate with teachers and students on over the world who are also learning English as target language.In pronunciation, most of English class in the rural and mountainous areas are not taught by  native English teachers so teaching pronunciation meet many difficulties so the appling technology in teaching pronunciation can help The learner listens to and imitates the sound and rhythms of the target language without the assistance of explicit instruction. Technologies, such as audiotapes, videos, and computer-based programs and websites, can offer rich resources of native speech as good models. The learner is provided with explicit, structured teaching of speech features utilizing articulatory descriptions and charts of speech apparatus, phonetic alphabet and vowel charts, and a variety of interactive speech analysis software and websites. In brief Using Technology to Teach Speaking and Pronunciation Skills is very necessary in teaching English in Viet nam.