Teach Pronunciation

Native Shmative

January 10, 2020 by teachpronunciation

Of all areas of English language teaching, pronunciation seems to strike most apprehension and doubt into teachers. This can be even more acute when it comes to discussion around accent – our accents. Nicola recently supervised some research from a teacher about this. This teacher, let’s call her Rachael for the purposes of this post, interviewed her fellow teachers about their feelings and practice regarding their accent and teaching pronunciation. Rachael’s from New Zealand and has experienced some negative reactions […]

Categories: Native or non-native, teach pronunciation • Tags: consonant sounds, EFL, IATEFL, Pronunciation, suprasegmental, teach English, teacher training, teaching practice assessment, Trinity Dip TESOL

We Talk Pron Again: from TLT to TNT

April 29, 2019 by teachpronunciation

In our last post We Talk Pron: TLT we proposed that by making certain stages of our lessons more communicative and giving our students more opportunities to speak, we can give ourselves vital opportunities to hear their output and therefore respond to it accordingly (Teacher Listening Time). This means giving more space in our plan for student talking time and more space to do something with what we hear. This planning idea can be used in general terms in the […]

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

We Talk Pron: TLT

March 21, 2019 by teachpronunciation

I am sure all of you have heard of STT versus TTT. On initial teacher training courses there is often an “increase STT and reduce TTT” comment, and often for good reason. As new teachers we tend to think we need to explain a lot. This of course changes over time and we learn how to move towards a more inquiry based approach, we develop lesson planning skills and adopt a more inductive approach to teaching. In this post we […]

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

Teachers talk pron 2: Galina talks research

February 14, 2019 by teachpronunciation

This is the second in our new series of posts where we invite teachers to share their experiences of developing how they teach pronunciation. If you would like to be featured just let us know! In this post, we invited Galina to discuss her recent ventures into teacher research. Doing self-directed classroom-based research is a great way to reflect and develop. I asked Galina to send me some images of her board work to help illustrate what she is doing […]

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Teachers talk pron 1 : Owen King

February 8, 2019 by teachpronunciation

This is the first in a new series of guest posts from teachers we have worked with. Mark and I are teacher trainers on a Diploma course and also do other teacher training F2F and online. Owen is more than halfway through his Dip TESOL course and has very successfully passed his teaching practice and phonology interview. When he came to Barcelona in the summer to do his teaching practice he spoke about how one of the biggest transformations in […]

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Learners talk pron 1: Toni

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

We talk pron: 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

We talk pron: 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

We teach pron: 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

We teach pron: 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

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