connected speech

Developing pronunciation through songs

admin — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:00:00 +0100

Like us, you might already use songs in class, and find that your students enjoy them. But have you considered choosing songs specifically to work on pronunciation?

Teaching the schwa

admin — Tue, 02 May 2006 13:00:00 +0100

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

Connected speech 2

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:00:00 +0000

An advanced student of mine speaks both clearly and usually correctly, but can often sound over formal and at times stilted.

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.