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