Teach Pronunciation

Toni Talks Pron

May 22, 2018 by teachpronunciation

“La cancioncilla – se te queda” (The tune sticks in your mind) Watch the video below of Toni talking about the impact learning English with integrated pronunciation work has had on him as a student. Listening to his reflections is hugely satisfying for us. Toni has been Mark’s student for two years now. He told Mark, AKA “the pron guy” to his students, that he has really felt the improvement in the last two years with his work on pron. […]

Categories: teach pronunciation, UAB Idiomes • Tags: connected speech, consonant sounds, EFL, individual sounds, intonation, Pronunciation, suprasegmental, teach English, teacher training, teaching practice assessment, Trinity Dip TESOL

FFP

April 21, 2018 by teachpronunciation

We were very happy to present at Iatefl in Brighton this year. In the talk we reflected on some of the key outcomes and realisations from team teaching over the last 6 months at UAB Idiomes in Barcelona. You may be wondering why two teacher trainers decided to teach together after more than 10 years of training together on a Trinity Dip TESOL course. Well, we decided to go into the classroom to test and reflect on some of the […]

Categories: teach pronunciation, UAB Idiomes • Tags: EFL, IATEFL, Pronunciation, teach English, teacher training, teaching practice assessment, Trinity Dip TESOL

I can’t speak English… &…. MFS!

March 23, 2018 by teachpronunciation

Over the winter we have been team (tag) teaching two groups at UAB Idiomes in Barcelona. In our last post, Mark Teaches Connected Speech, we spoke about teaching B1 learners connected speech to help their listening skills. We also wanted to explore teaching pron with beginner/ elementary students based on a recurring comment from the needs analyses from an A1 group, which we can sum up as something along the lines of; “I can’t speak English – I know it, […]

Categories: teach pronunciation, UAB Idiomes • Tags: connected speech, EFL, IATEFL, individual sounds, Pronunciation, suprasegmental, teach English, teacher training, teaching practice assessment, Trinity Dip TESOL, word stress

Mark Teaches Connected Speech

January 24, 2018 by teachpronunciation

During the same lesson that we featured in our last blog post, Nicola Teaches Word Stress, we decided to explore one of our Commandments of Phon: Listening needs more phon. We will continue teaching together throughout January and February 2018 and reflecting on our experiences in this series of blog posts and in our talk at IATEFL 2018! This stage of the lesson was with the group of B1 adult learners in UAB Idiomes in Barcelona, which we described in […]

Categories: teach pronunciation, UAB Idiomes • Tags: connected speech, EFL, IATEFL, Pronunciation, suprasegmental, teach English, teacher training, teaching practice assessment, Trinity Dip TESOL

Nicola Teaches Word Stress

December 8, 2017 by teachpronunciation

Mark and I taught a lesson together recently to put some of our ideas into action. We will be reflecting on our experience in a series of blog posts and in our talk at IATEFL 2018! This lesson was with a group of B1 adult learners in UAB Idiomes in Barcelona. All the learners are Catalan and Spanish speakers. These languages are both syllable-timed in contrast to English, which is stress-timed. They are using English File and this was only […]

Categories: teach pronunciation, UAB Idiomes • Tags: EFL, IATEFL, Pronunciation, suprasegmental, teach English, teacher training, teaching practice assessment, Trinity Dip TESOL, word stress

Hand over The Pron

October 3, 2017 by teachpronunciation

In this post we will show how learners can take control of improving their pronunciation. We like to call this handing over the pron!

Categories: teach pronunciation • Tags: individual sounds, Pronunciation, suprasegmental, teach English, teacher training

Jessica Teaches /w/

September 23, 2017 by teachpronunciation

Vlog two Working together as teacher trainers on the Trinity Dip TESOL for many years inspired us to begin this pronunciation project. We had a number of thoughts on what that would entail, but the main one was to share the ideas we had been passing on to our trainees on how to integrate pronunciation into their assessed lessons. We know; this sounds like just fulfilling an obligatory criterion in an assessment, which it is in a way, because phonology […]

Categories: teach pronunciation • Tags: consonant sounds, EFL, individual sounds, Pronunciation, teach English, teacher training, teaching practice assessment, Trinity Dip TESOL, word stress

We Talk Teaching

July 28, 2017 by teachpronunciation

Vlog one This summer we have been tutoring on the Trinity Licentiate Diploma in TESOL at Oxford TEFL, Barcelona. While putting the teaching schedule for our trainees together, we decided to take on some teaching duties ourselves, and demonstrate some of the pronunciation activities we have been talking about here on the blog. As always our goal was to integrate pronunciation more systematically and effectively into lessons. In the video below you can watch us leading pronunciation activities based on […]

Categories: teach pronunciation • Tags: connected speech, EFL, Pronunciation, suprasegmental, teach English

Viviane Talks Weekends

June 14, 2017 by teachpronunciation

Viviane L1: Portuguese Level: C1 Watch the video of Viviane talking about her weekends and think about her pronunciation. So, what do you notice about her pronunciation? It’s pretty good, right? Watch the video again and focus on these phrases. What happens to her intonation? Hi, I’m Viviane. I’m Brazilian. I’m 31 years old. I would like to talk about my typical weekend. I usually go back home and cook something. I watch something on TV, then go out for […]

Categories: teach pronunciation • Tags: connected speech, EFL, intonation, Pronunciation, suprasegmental, teach English

Kazuko Talks Plans

May 12, 2017 by teachpronunciation

Kazuko L1: Japanese Level: B2 Kazuko talks about her plans for the day Watch the video of Kazuko talking about her plans for the day. What aspects of her speech are clear for a listener? Watch the video again. What do you notice about the way she says the following words? Will After Friend Restaurant Drink Analysis: Kazuko is well on her way to greater intelligibility. Her pronunciation is clear in general, particularly vowel sounds, for example /ɪə/ /əʊ/ […]

Categories: teach pronunciation • Tags: consonant sounds, EFL, individual sounds, Pronunciation, teach English

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