Pronunciation

Pronunciation in Practice

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Speaker: 
Martin Hewings
Event date: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 08:45
Venue: 
TESOL Arabia pre-conference event
Location: 
Dubai, UAE
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Pronunciation One to One

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Event date: 
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 14:30
Venue: 
Living Learning English
Location: 
Bristol
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In one-to-one pronunciation teaching, we must assess what the individual student needs and find the best way of providing it. We can’t use a pre-determined syllabus or ‘set-piece’ pronunciation materials. Instead, we need to be flexible enough to negotiate and adapt both syllabus and methods.  For this, we need to keep three questions in mind:

Pronunciation as a Listening Skill

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Saturday, November 9, 2013 - 10:15
Venue: 
English UK
Location: 
London
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Pronunciation is just as important for listening as for speaking. In this workshop, we will look at what features make connected speech difficult to follow. We will try out a series of tasks and games for raising awareness of these features. Finally, I will suggest how teachers can prepare their own micro-listening activities.

Pronunciation Play

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Saturday, September 28, 2013 - 13:30
Venue: 
IATEFL Pron SIG / Teachitworld "Ways of Pronunciation Teaching"
Location: 
Bath, UK
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This talk was part of a day of pronunciation talks organized by the IATEFL PronSig in collaboration with the ELT website Teachitworld. In my talk, we took a playful approach to the teaching of pronunciation.

Pronunciation as a Listening Skill at NATESOL

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Event date: 
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 11:45
Venue: 
Salford City College
Location: 
Worsley, Greater Manchester
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Pronunciation is just as important for listening as for speaking. In this workshop, we will look at what features make connected speech difficult to follow. We will try out a series of tasks and games for raising awareness of these features. Finally, I will suggest how teachers can prepare their own micro-listening activities. Find PDF of handout below...

Pron 4 Spain

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Event date: 
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 11:00
Venue: 
EOI Orihuela
Location: 
Murcia
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We will look at 8 features of pronunciation which are of particular relevance for Spanish speaking learners of English. These will include vowels, spelling of vowels, consonants, clusters, word stress, stress patterns, tonic syllables and joined up speech. Each feature will be explained, contrasted with Spanish and demonstrated with an example game.

Pronunciation for Listeners: Making sense of connected speech

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 10:45
Venue: 
IATEFL Liverpool
Location: 
Hall 11a
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Pronunciation is just as important for listening as for speaking. In this workshop, we will look at what features make connected speech difficult to follow. We will try out a series of tasks and games for raising awareness of these features. Finally, I will suggest how teachers can prepare their own micro-listening activities. Find PDF of handout below...

English as a Lingua Franca

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Speaker: 
Robin Walker
Grzegorz Spiewak
Event date: 
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 10:00
Venue: 
IATEFL Liverpool
Location: 
Pre Conference Event ACC Hall 14
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(You can find Mark's powerpoint slide show at the foot of this page, and an interview at IATEFL here) (Read a summary here) The concept of English as a Lingua Franca is not new, and research into ELF has

Pronunciation as a Listening Skill (TESOL France)

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Event date: 
Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 14:00
Venue: 
TESOL France
Location: 
Paris
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Mark Hancock at TESOL France

Pronunciation is not only about the mouth, but also the ears. And, with English being a global language, the ears must learn to be flexible in order to make sense of all those varieties of spoken English out there. This session is about helping learners to deal with this variety.

Pronunciation as a listening skill: understanding authentic English (Poland)

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Event date: 
Saturday, September 8, 2012 - 11:45
Venue: 
IATEFL Poland
Location: 
Wroclaw
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Mark Hancock

Pronunciation is not only about the mouth, but also the ears. And, with English being a global language, the ears must learn to be flexible in order to make sense of all those varieties of spoken English out there. This session is about helping learners to deal with this variety.

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