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Teaching pronunciation at different learner levels
The next few posts feature practical questions raised by teachers following the current online Trinity Diploma at Oxford TEFL. On the topic of teaching pronunciation at different learner levels David Newstead posed three questions, relevant I think to teachers...
Our algorithms for teaching grammar do not apply to teaching pronunciation
Our algorithms for teaching grammar do not apply to teaching pronunciation. Cognitive algebra is different from physical choreography
‘Inside’ versus ‘outside’ knowledge of pronunciation
Pronunciation questions/observations from teachers on the online Trinity Diploma at Oxford TEFL Inside versus outside knowledge of pronunciation AU: Thanks everyone for posting your questions and observations. Many of you commented on the idea of inside versus outside...
Sounds … were somewhere in the air, floating, not reachable
Elisabetta Alborghetti is a private teacher working in Milan. She described to me the challenge facing learners of pronunciation in this poetic way….“…. sounds I did not know were somewhere in the air, floating, not reachable. I only used the ear … which was not...
“Why weren’t we taught these things before…?”
The students’ reaction to the pronunciation workshop was positive and even enthusiastic.
Grammar without pron…is like food without taste
Adrian Underhill takes us through some new ways of really putting pronunciation at the core of our teaching. Ten Liberating Assumptions about pronunciation teaching and learning. Modern English Teacher January 2018 Full integration of pronunciation into everything...
Pronunciation teacher training intensives Summer 2018
new approaches and techniques to share with you in the 2018 series of teacher training workshops. Details below. Hope to see you!
Pronunciation Teacher Training Programme in Alexandria, Egypt
Get pronunciation out of the head and into the body! The physicality of pronunciation. Learn to use proprioception and the pronunciation chart to boost your learners success with pronunciation and comfortable intelligibility.
Pronunciation teaching as inquiry in action
Teaching as inquiry in action For me teaching is inquiry in action. That doesn’t mean I’m always in that space, but that’s the aspiration. Perhaps it’s similar for you. When I go into a class I do not know what is going to happen, even when I have a plan. I cannot...
Business English pronunciation
Business English pronunciation Question: I teach Business English and my courses are really short (about 12 hours). What aspects of Business English pronunciation would you cover if you were me? Thanks. Reply: Yes, Business teachers often wonder about the role of...
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