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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

We talk pron: 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

Teachers talk pron: 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

Glynn Talks Spain

April 20, 2017 by teachpronunciation

Glynn L1: English Level: C2 Glynn talks about his new life in Spain Watch the video of Glynn talking about his new life in Spain. What features of his speech might be difficult to understand for some listeners? Watch the video again. What do you notice about the way he says the following sentences. Which words or groups of words are potentially unclear for some listeners? I just bought a boat. So, we’re going to start a charter company. We’re […]

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

We talk pron: IATEFL 2017 from a Pron Perspective

April 20, 2017 by teachpronunciation

Pronunciation was very well represented at Iatefl, both on the PronSIG day and in other talks both focusing on pron directly and indirectly. For example, Richard Cauldwell’s talk was a personal highlight for me as he showed us how pronunciation is key to developing listening skills with learners. More on that below, though. Myself and Mark also contributed to this pron feast at Iatefl. It was very enjoyable and you can watch the recording of the talk below. This blog […]

Categories: Teach pronunciation • Tags: connected speech, consonant sounds, EFL, IATEFL, individual sounds, intonation, Pronunciation, suprasegmental, teach English, word stress

My Talks Holidays

March 14, 2017 by teachpronunciation

My L1: Vietnamese Level: C1 My talks about a holiday Watch My’s video where she tells us about a recent holiday. What do you notice about her pronunciation? What might make it difficult for a listener to understand the details of her story? My does a great job in general! There are a couple of things we could pick up on. We are going to focus on one area. Watch the video again. Can you spot what is wrong […]