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Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
23 August, 2011
Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities
Pronunciation work has traditionally taken a secondary role in language teaching to work on grammar and more recently lexis.
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
28 June, 2011
Rhythm, rhyme, repetition, reasoning and response in oral storytelling
Live storytelling is a spontaneous creative process which fires the imagination. The listener experiences and participates in the story...
Core activities for using the chart to integrate pronunciation - speaking article - guest writers
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
20 October, 2010
Core activities for using the chart to integrate pronunciation
I often see the Sound Foundations chart (you can see it below) in classrooms, and teachers using it to bring pronunciation into the central...
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
2 March, 2009
Teaching the schwa
If you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa.
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
4 April, 2007
Rhythm
Rhythm is both a feature of and product of the phonological structure of English. 
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
21 June, 2006
Developing pronunciation through songs
Like us, you might already use songs in class, and find that your students enjoy them. But have you considered choosing songs specifically...
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
16 March, 2006
Using intonation
Intonation is crucial for communication. It's also a largely unconscious mechanism, and as such, a complex aspect of pronunciation.
Connected speech 2 - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
28 February, 2005
Connected speech 2
An advanced student of mine speaks both clearly and usually correctly, but can often sound over formal and at times stilted.
Word stress - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
21 February, 2005
Word stress
A language learner needs to engage with a word many times, preferably in different ways, in order to really learn it - identifying and...
Connected speech - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
17 January, 2005
Connected speech
Teaching pronunciation used to involve little more than identifying and practising the sounds of which a language is composed, that is to...
English sentence stress - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
19 July, 2004
English sentence stress
Sentence stress is a difficult area to work on for learners and teachers alike.
Teaching pronunciation with phonemic symbols - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
5 March, 2002
Teaching pronunciation with phonemic symbols
Phonemic symbols represent the sounds of the English language. 
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
23 August, 2011
Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities
Pronunciation work has traditionally taken a secondary role in language teaching to work on grammar and more recently lexis.
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
28 June, 2011
Rhythm, rhyme, repetition, reasoning and response in oral storytelling
Live storytelling is a spontaneous creative process which fires the imagination. The listener experiences and participates in the story...
Core activities for using the chart to integrate pronunciation - speaking article - guest writers
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
20 October, 2010
Core activities for using the chart to integrate pronunciation
I often see the Sound Foundations chart (you can see it below) in classrooms, and teachers using it to bring pronunciation into the central...
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
2 March, 2009
Teaching the schwa
If you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa.
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
4 April, 2007
Rhythm
Rhythm is both a feature of and product of the phonological structure of English. 
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
21 June, 2006
Developing pronunciation through songs
Like us, you might already use songs in class, and find that your students enjoy them. But have you considered choosing songs specifically...
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
16 March, 2006
Using intonation
Intonation is crucial for communication. It's also a largely unconscious mechanism, and as such, a complex aspect of pronunciation.
Connected speech 2 - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
28 February, 2005
Connected speech 2
An advanced student of mine speaks both clearly and usually correctly, but can often sound over formal and at times stilted.
Word stress - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
21 February, 2005
Word stress
A language learner needs to engage with a word many times, preferably in different ways, in order to really learn it - identifying and...
Connected speech - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
17 January, 2005
Connected speech
Teaching pronunciation used to involve little more than identifying and practising the sounds of which a language is composed, that is to...
English sentence stress - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
19 July, 2004
English sentence stress
Sentence stress is a difficult area to work on for learners and teachers alike.
Teaching pronunciation with phonemic symbols - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
5 March, 2002
Teaching pronunciation with phonemic symbols
Phonemic symbols represent the sounds of the English language. 
Connected speech - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
17 January, 2005
Connected speech
Teaching pronunciation used to involve little more than identifying and practising the sounds of which a language is composed, that is to...
Connected speech 2 - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
28 February, 2005
Connected speech 2
An advanced student of mine speaks both clearly and usually correctly, but can often sound over formal and at times stilted.
Core activities for using the chart to integrate pronunciation - speaking article - guest writers
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
20 October, 2010
Core activities for using the chart to integrate pronunciation
I often see the Sound Foundations chart (you can see it below) in classrooms, and teachers using it to bring pronunciation into the central...
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
21 June, 2006
Developing pronunciation through songs
Like us, you might already use songs in class, and find that your students enjoy them. But have you considered choosing songs specifically...
English sentence stress - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
19 July, 2004
English sentence stress
Sentence stress is a difficult area to work on for learners and teachers alike.
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
23 August, 2011
Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities
Pronunciation work has traditionally taken a secondary role in language teaching to work on grammar and more recently lexis.
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
4 April, 2007
Rhythm
Rhythm is both a feature of and product of the phonological structure of English. 
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
28 June, 2011
Rhythm, rhyme, repetition, reasoning and response in oral storytelling
Live storytelling is a spontaneous creative process which fires the imagination. The listener experiences and participates in the story...
Teaching pronunciation with phonemic symbols - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
5 March, 2002
Teaching pronunciation with phonemic symbols
Phonemic symbols represent the sounds of the English language. 
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
2 March, 2009
Teaching the schwa
If you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa.
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
16 March, 2006
Using intonation
Intonation is crucial for communication. It's also a largely unconscious mechanism, and as such, a complex aspect of pronunciation.
Word stress - pronunciation article
Pronunciation, Knowing the subject
21 February, 2005
Word stress
A language learner needs to engage with a word many times, preferably in different ways, in order to really learn it - identifying and...

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