Many of us who are in the business of teaching English suffer from a feeling of accent anxiety. We are embarrassed that our accent does not match the ideal ‘standard’ accent found in books and dictionaries, and we worry that our speech may not be...
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Mark Hancock and Annie McDonald are ELT authors, speakers and teachers. On this site, you'll find free classroom materials and downloads on pronunciation, listening skills and other topics, blog posts, ELT articles and information about our books. Hope you like it!
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NEW BOOKS winners of ELTons Award 2018 for innovation in teacher resources! PronPack 1-6 ebooks available on iBooks and Kobo and hard copy print books from Amazon, Bookery (Australia), Wordery, the BEBCbookshop, SBS (Brazil), englishbooks (Czech Rep) or DES (Greece/Cyprus).
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A new book has just joined the PronPack family. We welcome PronPack 6: Pronunciation of English for Brazilian Learners - more information about it here...
Most of us have experienced mishearing song lyrics. For example, in Bob Dylan’s song, instead of The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind, we might hear The ants are my friends, they’re blowin’ in the wind. It should come as...
This new book outlines a complete approach and philosophy of pronunciation teaching, in the form of 50 very accessible two-page tips. More about it here, and...
This article, which first appeared in Modern English Teacher 29.3 (July 2020), argues for a more democratic use of the IPA phonemic symbols in English language teaching.
