In 2001, the speaker discussed English pronunciation at the TESOL-SPAIN Annual Convention. This addressed the conflicting goals of native-speaker accent and international intelligibility. The recent talk in Cáceres concluded this 20-year journey, emphasizing that these goals are not mutually exclusive. The speaker, now semi-retired, also marked the end of their ELT career in Spain.
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LIVESTREAM + SAMPLE CHAPTER People have been showing a lot of interest in Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World since its official launch on February 15th. This has been so exciting for Gemma and I as authors – pronunciation is all too often marginalised in ELT, or simply not done at all on the […]
When I posted at the beginning of January about the book that Gemma Archer and I have written on pronunciation, quite a lot of people asked when it was due out. Gemma and I had our advance copies but the book wasn’t yet on sale so I promised I’d let people know when they were […]
What an exciting way to start 2024. Hot off the presses, Gemma Archer and I have just received our author’s copies of our new book, Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World. The book is part of the Oxford University Press series ‘Into the Classroom’, and is the teacher-oriented follow up to the OUP Position […]
The last day of September saw me and a great many other teachers doing just what the event title says, and bridging the TESOL-SPAIN regions that come together in the north of Spain. Truth to tell, the bridges the one-day conference built were much bigger than I’d expected, with delegates arriving in Bilbao from places […]
It’s so long since I last published anything on this blog (since the end of my A–Z of pronunciation, in fact), that I’ve more or less forgotten how to do it. But things have happened since I retired at the end of 2021 that seem to warrant one more sally into the world of blogging. […]
Z. The end of the alphabet and the end of this ‘A–Z of pronunciation‘ blog. There’s a lot more to say, of course, and a lot that could be dealt with in greater depth, but the blog has handsomely fulfilled it’s initial purpose, which was to give my life some sort of structure and direction […]
I was cleaning out old photos to reclaim a bit a space for my computer’s ailling memory when I came across this one from the 11th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, which was hosted at King’s College London back in July 2018. (So wish we could get back to that age of […]
OK, so at this stage we all know which are the components of the Lingua Franca Core (You don’t! Which planet do you live on? Click here and read the first part of the article.). Just as important, we all now know what’s not in the LFC, and why it’s not there. (Not you again! […]
My lords, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to bring before you now the two academics who many would argue have done more than anyone else to shape the world of pronunciation teaching as we know it today. With no expense spared, and in the sincere desire to quench your limitless thirst for knowledge, […]
There are various options for ‘E’, such as elision or epenthesis. However, since English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the thing put my comfortable little pronunciation teacher’s world totally on its head back in the late 1990s, the other ‘E’s will have to wait. I’ve written about ELF basics so many times that I’m […]
I was in Seville the other day, bound for Algeciras. The name brought back echoes of my childhood – on Sunday mornings in the 1960s the BBC had a radio programme where families could ask for music for loved ones who were serving abroad with the British Forces. Many of these servicemen and women were […]
I’m coming towards the end of a series of articles on the globalization of English, and ELF (English as a lingua franca). They’re being published in Modern English Teacher, and there are five already out there, plus one more to round the series off. The five that are out there are: The globalization of English: implications […]
In this second post about doubts about ELF pronunciation I want to respond to two questions about weak forms: 1. … regarding the use of weak forms, the LFC states that they are not to be taught (unless the student’s needs are for EFL) so speakers are encouraged to use the strong form of the word. In […]
I recently received a very interesting email from someone doing their PhD on the teaching of pronunciation for English as a Lingua Franca. The person in question is researching at a Spanish university and hopes that their work will ‘help Spanish speakers of English improve their pronunciation in the language, following the Lingua Franca Core’. Obviously I […]
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