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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]