AI-driven apps and pronunciation Back in May I told you about an article I had just had published about artificial intelligence and apps for learning pronunciation. The article was published in the teachers magazine Modern English Teacher. The magazine has just made the article public through its digital magazine, and you can access it by […]
Early pronunciation teaching was heavily based on imitating the teacher, with a native-speaker accent as the goal. Things have moved on since then, however, with intelligibility now the goal, and with AI–powered apps making learning easier than ever. So is AI threatening to make teachers redundant, or do AI pronunciation apps glitter without being gold? […]
The podcast focuses on the learner’s first language (L1) in relation to pronunciation. While L1 can hinder achieving a native-speaker accent, it can also aid international intelligibility. The session discusses word stress, leveraging L1 features for effective pronunciation, and the skills needed for productive and receptive pronunciation, referencing Jenkins’ lingua franca core.
The podcast episode discusses the challenges and benefits of teaching English pronunciation, particularly focusing on vowel length and its significance for intelligibility. It highlights how pronunciation affects fluency, listening skills, and vocabulary acquisition, emphasizing its crucial role in the overall learning process. Tune in for insights and tips on this important topic.
In the second episode of OUP’s ‘Talking ELT’ podcast, the discussion revolves around the deep connection between accent and identity. An accent serves as a significant marker of personal identity, creating conflict when individuals feel compelled to alter their natural pronunciation. The complexity of this relationship is explored by Yordanka, Montse, and the host.
In April this year we held a discussion at OUP on pronunciation for a global world. The discussion has now been released as a series of podcasts as part of the OUP series, ‘Talking ELT’.
In 2001, the speaker discussed English pronunciation at the TESOL-SPAIN Annual Convention. This addressed the conflicting goals of native-speaker accent and international intelligibility. The recent talk in Cáceres concluded this 20-year journey, emphasizing that these goals are not mutually exclusive. The speaker, now semi-retired, also marked the end of their ELT career in Spain.
LIVESTREAM + SAMPLE CHAPTER People have been showing a lot of interest in Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World since its official launch on February 15th. This has been so exciting for Gemma and I as authors – pronunciation is all too often marginalised in ELT, or simply not done at all on the […]
When I posted at the beginning of January about the book that Gemma Archer and I have written on pronunciation, quite a lot of people asked when it was due out. Gemma and I had our advance copies but the book wasn’t yet on sale so I promised I’d let people know when they were […]
What an exciting way to start 2024. Hot off the presses, Gemma Archer and I have just received our author’s copies of our new book, Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World. The book is part of the Oxford University Press series ‘Into the Classroom’, and is the teacher-oriented follow up to the OUP Position […]
The last day of September saw me and a great many other teachers doing just what the event title says, and bridging the TESOL-SPAIN regions that come together in the north of Spain. Truth to tell, the bridges the one-day conference built were much bigger than I’d expected, with delegates arriving in Bilbao from places […]
It’s so long since I last published anything on this blog (since the end of my A–Z of pronunciation, in fact), that I’ve more or less forgotten how to do it. But things have happened since I retired at the end of 2021 that seem to warrant one more sally into the world of blogging. […]
Z. The end of the alphabet and the end of this ‘A–Z of pronunciation‘ blog. There’s a lot more to say, of course, and a lot that could be dealt with in greater depth, but the blog has handsomely fulfilled it’s initial purpose, which was to give my life some sort of structure and direction […]
Oh the power of this question in the mouths of young children as they flex their early language and logic muscles! ‘Why?’, they ask with apparent innocence, driving their exhausted parents deeper and deeper into their dwindling reserves of patience and logic. ‘Why?’, the child asks. Later we become adults and stop asking. Or ask […]
Back in July 2020, in the introduction to the post ‘M is halfway‘, I invited you to suggest possible topics for posts N–Z. Colleague Daniel Barber took me at my word and suggested that for ‘X’ I should write about xenophobia. Happy just to be getting feedback, I said that I would. In hindsight, that […]
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