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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Lost in space: Why phoneme vowel charts may inhibit learning of pronunciation

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In a recent workshop I inadvertently suggested that the relative distances between adjacent English vowels on various standard charts, such ...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

On developing excellent pronunciation and gesture--according to John Wesley,1770.

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Have just rediscovered Wesley's delightful classic "Directions Concerning Pronunciation and Gesture" , a short pamphlet pub...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

Can't see teaching (or learning) pronunciation? Good idea!

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Clker.com A common strategy of many learners when attempting to "get" the sound of a word is to close their eyes. Does that wo...
Monday, November 30, 2015

The Music of Pronunciation (and language) Teaching

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Like many pronunciation and "speaking" specialists, I have long believed that in some way systematic use of music should be "...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Keeping the pain in pronunciation teaching (but working it out with synchronized movement and dance)

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ClipArt: Clker.com Three of the staples of pronunciation work, choral repetition, drill and reading have been making something of a com...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Drawing on the haptic side of the brain (in edutainment and pronunciation teaching)

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ClipArt: Clker.com How is your current "edutainmental quality of experience" (E-QoE), defined as degree of excitement, enjoy...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Good looking, intelligible English pronunciation: Better seen (than just) heard

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One of the less obvious shortcomings of virtually all empirical research in second language pronunciation intelligibility is that is gener...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Emphatic prosody: Oral reading rides again! (in language teaching)

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Clipart: Clker.com Two friends have related to me how they conclude interviews. One (a) asks applicants "Napoleon's final quest...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Alexander Guiora - Requiescat in pace

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Last month the field of language teaching and language sciences lost a great friend, colleague, researcher and theorist, Alexander Guiora ...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

We have met the enemy (of pronunciation teaching in TESOL), and he is us!

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Clker.com Am often reminded of that great quip in the political cartoon Pogo, by Walt Kelly , embellished in the title of this post. In ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

8 ways to teach English rhythm to EVERYbody but no BODY!

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Here's one for your " kitchen sink " file (a research study that throws almost every imaginable technique at a problem--and su...
Monday, October 19, 2015

The perfect body image for haptic pronunciaiton teaching!

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Clipart: Clker.com   Is haptic pronunciation teaching for you? According to research, here's a way to check. Put on your exe...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Great memory for words? They're probably out of their heads!

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Perhaps the greatest achievement of neuroscience to date has been to repeatedly (and empirically) confirm common sense. That is certainly th...
Monday, September 28, 2015

4 rituals for improving how students feel about their pronunciation

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ClipArt: Clker.com It is getting to the point now that whenever you need advice on all things related to feeling or doing better, your d...
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