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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

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

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

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

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 […]

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

Isabel Talks Downloading

February 28, 2017 by teachpronunciation

Isabel L1: Catalan/ Spanish Level: B1 Isabel talks about illegal downloading Watch Isabel talking about downloading. What features of Isabel’s speech might be difficult to understand for some listeners? Watch the video again. Can you spot what is wrong with the way she pronounces these words? the they this there about wedding restaurant What’s the problem for the listener? Isabel does not pronounce the following consonant sounds correctly: / ð/ ‘the’ / ðə/ ‘they’ / ðeɪ/ ‘this’ / ðɪs/ ‘there’ / […]

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

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Native Shmative

We Talk Pron Again: from TLT to TNT

We Talk Pron: TLT

Learners talk pron 1: Toni

Teachers talk pron: Jessica Teaches /w/

Kazuko Talks Plans

We talk pron: IATEFL 2017 from a Pron Perspective

My Talks Holidays

Isabel Talks Downloading