Talks by Mark Hancock

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Silent Stories: using pictures in ELT

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Event date: 
Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 10:45
Venue: 
Serbia Summer Seminar
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Borsko Jezero
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Silent Stories: using pictures in ELT

Pictures are like silent stories. Silent because they are non-verbal. Stories, because they are pregnant with content to talk about. For these two reasons alone, they are extremely useful in English language teaching. In this talk, we explain these and more advantages of pictures, as well as demonstrating different activity types for use in the classroom.

Pronunciation Play

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 10:45
Venue: 
Serbia Summer Seminar
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Borsko Jezero
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Spoiler alert! Read no further if you´re going to attend this talk and rather like surprises! In this talk, we will take a playful approach to the teaching of pronunciation. We will see how the playfulness may lie one the one hand in the materials we use, as in the case of word-play, rhymes, chants and so on, and on the other hand, in the tasks we set up, as in the case of games and puzzles.

Pronouncing Meaning: rhythm and stress games

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Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 14:00
Venue: 
IATEFL Harrogate
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Harrogate International Conference Centre, Queen's 5 (sesssion2.4)
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This workshop is part of the IATEFL pronSIG day, session 2.4 (14:05 - 14:50). Rhythm and sentence stress are vital in creating meaning, yet they can be daunting and confusing for both teachers and students.

Pronunciation as a Listening Skill: understanding connected speech

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Saturday, March 15, 2014 - 13:00
Venue: 
20th TESOL Arabia International Conference
Location: 
Dubai, UAE
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Thank you for coming to my talk on Pronunciation as a Listening Skill. As a follow up, I'd like to provide links to all the material mentioned in the session. First of all, the authentic listening about Facebook comes from Unit 50 of this book.

Means, Methods, Motivation

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Event date: 
Friday, March 14, 2014 - 10:00
Venue: 
20th TESOL Arabia International Conference
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Dubai, UAE
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Perhaps the most important part of effective teaching is the ability to motivate our learners. Part of this ability lies in the personal style of the teacher. But motivation can also be boosted by well-selected and well-prepared methods and means.

Pronunciation in Practice

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Martin Hewings
Event date: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 08:45
Venue: 
TESOL Arabia pre-conference event
Location: 
Dubai, UAE
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Pronunciation - hancockmcdonald.com/focus/pronunciation

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Pronunciation One to One

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 14:30
Venue: 
Living Learning English
Location: 
Bristol
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Pronunciation - hancockmcdonald.com/focus/pronunciation

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 - hancockmcdonald.com/focus/pronunciation

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.

A Map of ELT

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Event date: 
Saturday, October 5, 2013 - 15:45
Venue: 
English UK North academic conference
Location: 
Leeds, UK
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What’s your ELT footprint? This is one of the questions we will look into in “A Map of ELT” at the English UK North academic conference in Leeds on Saturday Oct 8th. After looking at the map and how it is organized, we’ll consider how it may be used for teacher reflection, critical awareness and for a ‘bigger picture’ perspective on topical issues in ELT.

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.

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