If you cut down on time spent in class on pronunciation you’ll be able to do more of other things and so offer your learners ‘low-cost’ English. In these times of economic crisis, this might seem an attractive idea, but sadly, sooner or later your learners will pay the price for the corners that you cut. As I drove […]
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While I was struggling to access this blog I used Facebook to let you know about the excellent chapter on attitudes to L2 accents by Stephanie Lindemann, Jason Litzenberg, and Nicholas Subtirelu (from Social dynamics in second language accent (2013, Levis & Moyer, eds). I quoted the authors … “We argue that while negative attitudes […]
Back in March I posted about misleading guide words. Then the problem had been my use of air as a guide word for the diphthong /eə/. Yesterday, with the same group of students, the problem repeated itself, this time with the selection of a guide word for /aʊ/. I had put the word now on the […]
In class this week I was revising some work I’d done on the pronunciation of the sounds /iː/, /uː/, /ɔː/, /ɪə/, and /eə/. I was preparing the group for some simple discrimination work in which the students would have place words in the appropriate column according to these vowel sounds. Prior to running the exercise […]
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