weak forms

Teaching the schwa

admin — Tue, 02 May 2006 12:00:00 +0000

If you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa.

Connected speech

admin — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Teaching pronunciation used to involve little more than identifying and practicing the sounds of which a language is composed, that is to say, its phonemes.

Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Pronunciation work has traditionally taken a secondary role in language teaching to work on grammar and more recently lexis.