All content by Mark is listed below:
I got my first teaching job in 1984, working at a large boy's secondary school in El Obeid, Sudan. This experience made it very clear to me that there's a lot more to teaching English than just being able to speak the language!
Wednesday - October 19th, 2016
Happy to see a review of our website in IATEFL Voices Issue 253, by Jennifer St.John of the University of Ottawa. Here are a few excerpts
As a contributor, I wrote a video script storyline and accompanying page spreads in the Cambridge English Empower C1 book, to highlight functional everyday English and provide listening practice, i
Sunday - October 16th, 2016
View 7: Twang!
Seventh in the series Accent through the keyhole. Scroll down for the mp3 podcast version.
So what’s this post about?
Saturday - October 8th, 2016
Sixth in the series Accent through the keyhole. Scroll down for the mp3 podcast version.
Why are you illustrating this post with a picture of a mouthless face?
Sunday - September 25th, 2016
Fifth in the blog/podcast series Accent through the keyhole. Scroll down for the mp3 download.
So who’s this accent creep you mention in the title?
Thursday - September 22nd, 2016
Fancy an accent tattoo? Fourth in the series Accent Through the Keyhole. Scroll down for the mp3 podcast download.
Speech sounds are just neutral, aren’t they? So how can there be a ‘bad boy’?
Wednesday - September 14th, 2016
One person's prestige accent is another person's speech impediment. Third in the series Accent through the keyhole. Scroll down for the mp3 podcast version.
Can you remind us what a lisp is?
Tuesday - September 6th, 2016
Tuesday - September 6th, 2016
This series of 8 podcasts / posts looks at key questions relating to accent and English teaching by focusing on specific instances and generalizing out from them. This page serves as a contents list for the series:
View 1: Either will do. In which we look at what's not important in pronunciation teaching.
Tuesday - August 30th, 2016
ACCENT THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: small views of big pictures. This series of posts looks at key questions relating to accent and English teaching by focusing on specific instances and generalizing out from them. Check out the podcast too - it's at the bottom of the page...
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