Blog posts in June 2012

Here we've got ideas, observations on ELT, including Mark's Pronunciation Blog and loads of conference and speaker reports...

Dangerous Dictation n.2

Friday - June 22nd, 2012
Posted by: 
Mark Hancock
Pron-Puzzles - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/topic/pron-puzzles
Dangerous Dictations are puzzles which depend on word-boundary confusions. For example, 'Bow Tie' sounds exactly like 'Boat Eye', because you can't be sure whether the /t/ sound is the end of 'Boat' or the start of 'Tie'. This could lead to dictation errors. The puzzle for your students is to identify and explain the error.
  • Pronunciation

Dangerous Dictation n.1

Friday - June 22nd, 2012
Posted by: 
Mark Hancock
Pron-Puzzles - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/topic/pron-puzzles
Dangerous Dictations are puzzles which depend on word-boundary confusions. For example, 'The Great Ape' sounds exactly like 'The Grey Tape', because you can't be sure whether the /t/ sound is the end of 'Great' or the start of 'Tape'. This could lead to dictation errors. The puzzle for your students is to identify and explain the error.
  • Pronunciation

More on authentic listening

Sunday - June 10th, 2012
Posted by: 
Annie McDonald
Modern English Teacher Vol 21 No 2

In the current issue of Modern English Teacher, http.//www.onlinemet.com, there's a very informative, useful and convincing article by Sheila Thorn on 'Debunking Authentic Listening (MET Vol 21, No 2, pgs 65-69) in which she puts the case for using authentic listenings in the classroom.

  • Listening