Talks by Mark Hancock

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French teacher's course in Manchester

Event date: 
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 09:15 to Friday, July 17, 2015 - 16:30
Venue: 
NILE / INTO
Location: 
Bridgewater House, Manchester
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Doing things with Sounds: practical pronunciation activities for EFL classrooms

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Friday, May 22, 2015 - 11:15
Venue: 
English Pronunciation Issues & Practices 4
Location: 
Prague
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Mark Hancock talk at EPIP in Prague

This event is the 4th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues and Practices. See a review of the conference here.

In this talk, we'll be looking at individual sounds and things we and our students can do with them. These will include:

Pronunciation to go: learning to learn from the dictionary

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Event date: 
Monday, April 13, 2015 - 13:30
Venue: 
IATEFL
Location: 
Manchester; Exchange 9
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(pdf of slides below) Proverbial wisdom tells us that if you give someone a fish, they can eat for a day, but if you teach someone to fish, they can eat for a lifetime. It’s a message about the long-term value of learning new skills and becoming independent. A similar thing could be said about pronunciation and dictionaries.

Practical Pronunciation

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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 15:00 to Friday, March 20, 2015 - 17:15
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Presenting Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary 9
Location: 
Italy
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The slide show of this talk can be found on the PDF below. In this talk, we will focus on pronunciation at three levels – 1 sounds, 2 words, and 3 phrases. For each of these, we will look at some of the typical problems for Italian learners, and try out some fun activities for raising awareness of these.

Doing things with Sounds: practical pronunciation activities for EFL classrooms

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Event date: 
Friday, March 6, 2015 - 19:00
Venue: 
TESOL Spain
Location: 
Salamanca
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Doing things with sounds by Mark Hancock

I'm delighted to be presenting at TESOL Spain this year on the topic of pronunciation. This year, we'll be looking at individual sounds and things we and our students can do with them, including experimenting and imagining, representing and exploring, and playing and communicating.

Doing things with Sounds: practical pronunciation activities for EFL classrooms

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Event date: 
Saturday, February 21, 2015 - 11:30
Venue: 
Accentuate (Pronsig/NATECLA)
Location: 
British Council, Spring Gardens, London
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See a video of this talk here. Each language has a repertoire of sounds which are used to make meaningful distinctions. When teaching the sounds of English, we need to keep that practical purpose in mind.

Putting Motivation on the Map

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Saturday, November 15, 2014 - 16:15
Venue: 
TESOL France Colloquium
Location: 
Paris
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What is motivation and what can we do in class to nurture it? In answer to the first question, I will present the various facets of motivation on a map with the four main corners being content, aspirations, learning and classroom. In answer to the second, we will try out some specific classroom ideas relating to each of the four corners.

Pronunciation for Listeners Webinar

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Event date: 
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 16:00
Venue: 
Delta Webinar
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Pronunciation for listeners webinar

Think you heard it all? Think again! Expert listeners don't hear it all. They hear what's needed and disregard the 'noise'. But L2 listeners have to learn what counts as 'noise' in the target language. It’s not the ‘difficult’ words that present the biggest problem; it’s the ‘easy’ ones that are pronounced in unexpected ways.

Teaching with Songs: nine of the best activities

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Event date: 
Friday, July 4, 2014 - 10:45
Venue: 
Serbia Summer Seminar
Location: 
Borsko Jezero
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Mark Hancock talk - Teaching with Songs: nine of the best activities

Songs are a particularly useful resource for ELT. They have language, motivational appeal and great mnemonic power. In this presentation, we will look at different ways in which we can unlock their potential. We will try out a series of activities to use before, during and after the song.

Motivation Island

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Event date: 
Friday, July 4, 2014 - 09:30
Venue: 
Serbia Summer Seminar
Location: 
Borsko Jezero
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You have to pay attention to learn. So what kinds of classroom materials and activities motivate learners to pay attention? In this presentation, we will see motivation theory in the form of a map of an island with four main regions – subject, aspiration, learning and classroom. We will explore these regions and try out some classroom activities which illustrate them.

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