It is very important indeed to teach pronunciation to the students because it helps students to pronounce the words correctly with appropriate stress and intonation. Mispronunciation can cause misunderstanding because English is not a phonetic language.
Using strategies for pronciation for EFL learners are so essential. Those learners need to learn such strategies since they do not meet native speakers of English, thus learning opportunities to pronounc English are limited compared to ESL learners.
Certainly, yes. It is also getting neglected or thought something less important. Our learners' are getting far away from the native-like accents. The gap is widening. What do you think about the communication failure happening due to intelligibility and comprehensibility?