Talks, presentations and workshops

We often present at ELT conferences and events. Just select the title below if you're looking for the handout or download from a talk or workshop you have attended.

BRELT Pronunciation Week Webinar

Event date: 
Sunday, March 4, 2018 - 14:00
Venue: 
Brazil's English Language Teachers
Location: 
Webinar
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BRELT Pronunciation Week Webinar - hancockmcdonald.com/node/560/edit

Find the downloads for this webinar by following this link and going to the bottom of the page. The You Tube video of the webinar is here.

The title is "Pronunciation Teaching: going beyond listen and repeat", and here's a summary of the content, in prose form...

Tonic Stress Made Simple

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Event date: 
Saturday, February 17, 2018 - 16:00
Venue: 
Pronunciation: The Missing Link
Location: 
University of Chester, Parkgate Campus
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Tonic Stress Made Simple - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/tonic-stress-made-simple

Tonic stress is a speaker’s use of emphasis to focus a listener’s attention. It’s an aspect of the speaking skill which is often neglected, but is crucial signalling the connections between ideas in both monologues and dialogues. Here’s a quick example:

To be // or not to be

Listening in Chunks

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Event date: 
Saturday, February 17, 2018 - 14:45
Venue: 
IATEFL Pron SIG
Location: 
University of Chester Parkgate Campus
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Listening in Chunks

Listening lessons often encourage students to use strategies to guess meaning, without developing their ability to decode spoken English itself. Could focusing on language chunks be a missing link which helps students improve their listening skills? In this talk we’ll take a look at activities which might just do that.

Pronunciation Teaching in a Lingua Franca Context

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Event date: 
Friday, November 24, 2017 - 12:00
Venue: 
4th International Conference on ESP/EAP/EMI
Location: 
4, Leninskiy avenue Moscow, Russian Federation
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 - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/calendar/month/2017-11

Moderator: IATEFL Pronunciation SIG Co-ordinator Wayne Rimmer

Presenters: Robin Walker, Heather Hansen, Mark Hancock

Teaching Tonicity

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Event date: 
Thursday, November 23, 2017 - 13:00
Venue: 
4th International Conference on ESP/EAP/EMI
Location: 
4, Leninskiy avenue Moscow, Russian Federation
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Teaching Tonicity - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/teaching-tonicity

Tonicity is a speaker’s use of stress to focus a listener’s attention. It’s an aspect of pronunciation which is often neglected, but is crucial in getting meaning across. In this session we will look at ways of presenting and practicing this important skill in the language class. The slides can be downloaded below. See more about Mark's books here.

Making Listening Memorable: Listening in Chunks

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Event date: 
Saturday, November 18, 2017 - 09:30
Venue: 
Polo Ditattico
Location: 
Plazza Oderico da Pordenone 3
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TESOL Italy 2017

When students listen to a text, many feel they are starting from scratch rather than building on what they have already mastered. Nowadays, technology enables teachers to create content and design effective activities which help learners make real listening progress. Come along and try out a selection of these activities!

Pronunciation: be a teacher, not a preacher

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Event date: 
Friday, November 17, 2017 - 14:00
Venue: 
Polo Ditattico, Piazza Oderico da Pordenone 3
Location: 
Rome, Italy
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 - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/calendar/month/2017-11

Pronunciation teaching can be fun, but in a world where English is a lingua franca, we need to take a flexible approach. We can’t simply preach a single ideal target model, instead, we must teach learners to be adaptable, both receptively and productively. In this session, I will demonstrate this. Download the slides from the talk below.

Making Listening Memorable: Listening in Chunks

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Event date: 
Sunday, October 22, 2017 - 10:00
Venue: 
CEP de Granada
Location: 
Granada, Spain
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Making Listening Memorable
When it comes to ‘doing’ listening, many students feel they are starting from scratch rather than building on what they have already mastered. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the notion of ‘verbal stickiness’, and consider how we could exploit this phenomenon by focusing on various language patterns and using different activities to help students become more efficient and fluent listeners.

Pronunciation: Be a teacher, not a preacher

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Event date: 
Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 18:00
Venue: 
GRETA
Location: 
Granada
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 - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/calendar/day/2017-10-21

Pronunciation work can be the most enjoyable part of a lesson but for this to happen, we need to move beyond ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, and instead explore language together with our students in a spirit of collaborative discovery. In this session, I will demonstrate examples of how I think this can be done.

Pronunciation: be a teacher, not a preacher

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Event date: 
Friday, October 20, 2017 - 16:00
Venue: 
TESOL Spain
Location: 
St Louis University, Madrid campus
Extra info: 
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Pronunciation: be a teacher, not a preacher - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/pronunciation-be-teacher-not-preacher-0

 

 

 

 

 

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