by Adrian Underhill | Apr 22, 2022 | 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart, 4. Connected Speech & Comfortable Intelligibility, 5. Question & Answer; General Issues, 8. Teacher Training Courses & Conferences
Hello everyone, Now that nothing is getting back to normal, I’d like to draw your attention to some unusually interesting and (I think) innovative summer teacher training programmes. There is full information at the links. If you decide to come, let’s make sure we...
by Adrian Underhill | Dec 8, 2018 | 2. The Physicality of Pronunciation & Proprioception, 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart, 5. Question & Answer; General Issues, Trinity Diploma Pron Questions
Another question from teachers on the Diploma programme at Oxford TEFL (click for info) The short answer? Don’t teach the symbols, but help learners discover the sounds. And when they are able to say a sound close to the target sound, you can point at the sound on the...
by Adrian Underhill | Dec 3, 2018 | 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart, 4. Connected Speech & Comfortable Intelligibility, 5. Question & Answer; General Issues, Trinity Diploma Pron Questions
Two questions from teachers on the current Diploma programme at Oxford TEFL (click for info) Q1 Is there room for diversity in terms of the idea of the ‘right ‘or ‘correct ‘pronunciation? Q2 What if teachers, even having decided a pronunciation...
by Adrian Underhill | Nov 3, 2018 | 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart, 5. Question & Answer; General Issues, Trinity Diploma Pron Questions
Another question raised by a teacher on the online Trinity Diploma at Oxford TEFL. I’ve been reading Kelly’s book How to Teach Pronunciation and I have also watched and read some of your material. It seems to me that Kelly’s suggestion is to deal...
by Adrian Underhill | Aug 21, 2018 | 2. The Physicality of Pronunciation & Proprioception, 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart, 5. Question & Answer; General Issues, Trinity Diploma Pron Questions
Further questions raised by teachers on the online Trinity Diploma at Oxford TEFL. The themes here are 1) at what age to start using the pron chart, and 2) what to do about pron meta language and explaining pron. Ana Castro writes: In my teaching experience I’ve...
by Adrian Underhill | Jun 20, 2018 | 2. The Physicality of Pronunciation & Proprioception, 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart, 5. Question & Answer; General Issues, Trinity Diploma Pron Questions
This post continues with questions raised by teachers on the online Trinity Diploma at Oxford TEFL. The themes here are 1) whether to deal with consonants or vowels first; and 2) the use of phonemic symbols. Consonants or vowels first? Q1: While learning the sounds...
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