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Tag Archives: guide words

More misleading guide words

23 May, 2014 · by englishglobalcom | tagged adult learners, diphthongs, discrimination, guide words, L1 influence, L1 interference, pronunciation

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 […]

Misleading guide words

5 March, 2014 · by englishglobalcom | tagged dictionary, diphthongs, discrimination, guide words, IPA, pronunciation

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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