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Improvisation and pronunciation teaching Part 2: A technique for improvisation

by Adrian Underhill | Jan 30, 2014 | 5. Question & Answer; General Issues

 In this post I’d like to conclude what I started to say about improvisation and pron teaching a couple of posts ago. To improvise well in my response to a learner’s utterance means to engage with what they are working on in making the utterance, to see what...

The familiar /iː/ and /ɪ/, but also the mysterious /i/. How many phonemes do we need?

by Adrian Underhill | Jan 28, 2014 | 2. The Physicality of Pronunciation & Proprioception

Natalia Malenko puts the following excellent question. But before you read it look carefully at the difference between the three symbols above…. Natalia says….I have noticed, as probably some other lecturers/teachers have too, that in some dictionaries there is an...

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