englishglobalcom

English Global Communication – Talk to the world!

Menu

Skip to content
  • ABOUT EGC
    • Recent work
    • Testimonials, feedback & cv
  • An A–Z of pronunciation
    • ‘A’ is for accent (1)
    • ‘A’ is for accent (2)
    • The bilabials /p/, /b/ and /m/
    • Comprehensibility
    • Dental consonants
    • ELF – English as a lingua franca
    • Fricatives (and functional load)
    • ‘G’ is for goals
    • Habit formation
    • Intelligibility
    • Jenner and Jenkins
    • Kenworthy, J. (1987: 4–9)
    • ‘L’ is for the Lingua Franca Core. What else?
    • Lingua Franca Core (Part 2)
    • From Moscow to MES
    • M is halfway
    • The Nativeness Principle
    • Nativeness (2) – just who do you think you are?
    • (M)other tongue
    • Priorities for pronunciation
    • Quality or quantity – priorities for English vowels
    • Quality in vowels – consistent, intelligible, achievable
    • Receptive phonological competence
    • Stress timed
    • Tonic, tone, teachable
    • Tonic stress
    • ‘u’ / you / ?
    • U(2)
    • Variation
    • Weak forms
    • Xenophobia
    • Y?
  • Articles
  • Blog posts
  • Books
  • Coaching – training tailored to your needs
  • Downloads
  • Links to other blogs
  • Talks & Workshops
    • English as a Lingua Franca
    • Pronunciation
    • Language & Skills
    • ESP & Business English
    • The Culture(s) of English
  • Text – revision and translation services
    • Rates for revision & translation of texts
  • Training – professional development for practising teachers
  • Webinars
  • Contact

Tag Archives: rise

Tonic, tone, teachable

25 November, 2020 · by englishglobalcom | tagged fall, fall-rise, intonation, nuclear stress, pronunciation, pronunciation teaching, rise, sentence stress, teachable, tone, tonic, tonic stress | 2 Comments

‘It’s not what you say. It’s the way that you say it’. How many times have you been chided or have you chided someone for using the wrong tone when speaking. And it’s so important to get the tone right. Or is it?

Post navigation

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 299 other subscribers

EGC at work

Independent listening MET 29/2 April 2020
Independent listening MET 29/2 April 2020
IATEFL Liverpool 2013
IATEFL Liverpool 2013
EGC. INCATUR, Cangas de Onis, 2012
EGC. INCATUR, Cangas de Onis, 2012
SyG Swimming in English, Garaña
SyG Swimming in English, Garaña
OUP - with Shuan Wilden in Rome
OUP – with Shuan Wilden in Rome
EGC. Hochschule Kempten Fakultät Tourismusmanagement
EGC. Hochschule Kempten Fakultät Tourismusmanagement
OUP. HUPE Annual Conference, Opatija, 2013
OUP. HUPE Annual Conference, Opatija, 2013
MET 27/1 – IDEAS for teaching pronunciation
MET 27/1 – IDEAS for teaching pronunciation
Primary pronunciation, Torrent, 2007
Primary pronunciation, Torrent, 2007
OUP - workshop, Serbia, 2008
OUP – workshop, Serbia, 2008
Oxford English for Careers: Tourism 2
Oxford English for Careers: Tourism 2
OUP Polska in Balystok
OUP Polska in Balystok
EGC. Macau Polytechnic
EGC. Macau Polytechnic
With teachers at St James, Seville
With teachers at St James, Seville
OUP. HUPE Conference - with Michael Swan
OUP. HUPE Conference – with Michael Swan
Ciudad Real. Trinity Best practice workshop
Ciudad Real. Trinity Best practice workshop
September 2019. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the end of three very intensive days' training for OUP España
September 2019. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the end of three very intensive days’ training for OUP España
In-service training with teachers in Vegacervera, León.
In-service training with teachers in Vegacervera, León.
OUP - Tyumen, Russsia, 2007
OUP – Tyumen, Russsia, 2007
With Belén Álvarez of the Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes of the Principado de Asturias Regional Government
With Belén Álvarez of the Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes of the Principado de Asturias Regional Government
ELF3 Forum - with Penny Ur
ELF3 Forum – with Penny Ur
Training for OUP. Nisc, Serbia, 2008
Training for OUP. Nisc, Serbia, 2008
Masters in Action Warsaw, 2013
Masters in Action Warsaw, 2013
OUP - in Italy with Clive Oxenden
OUP – in Italy with Clive Oxenden
With PronSIG activists at IATEFL just after Jackie Kay's unforgettable (heavily accented) closing plenary
With PronSIG activists at IATEFL just after Jackie Kay’s unforgettable (heavily accented) closing plenary
Addressing the audience in the patio of CLIC Seville
Addressing the audience in the patio of CLIC Seville
OUP - promoting English File, Italy 2013
OUP – promoting English File, Italy 2013
An knowledgeable and interested audience
An knowledgeable and interested audience
PronSIG & YL SIG event, Cantebury, 2010
PronSIG & YL SIG event, Cantebury, 2010
ELF3 Forum, Vienna 2010
ELF3 Forum, Vienna 2010
Happy teachers even after a week's immersion in English in sweltering temperatures in the heart of Madrid.
Happy teachers even after a week’s immersion in English in sweltering temperatures in the heart of Madrid.
Toledo. Trinity Best Practice workshop
Toledo. Trinity Best Practice workshop
PronSIG & YL SIG event, Cantebury, 2010
PronSIG & YL SIG event, Cantebury, 2010
SyG. Teacher training with SyG
SyG. Teacher training with SyG
DUOC Santiago de Chile
DUOC Santiago de Chile
ELF3 Forum, Vienna, 2010
ELF3 Forum, Vienna, 2010
Re-visiting old friends - motivation, topic and text
Re-visiting old friends – motivation, topic and text
MacMillan VIP Event, Warsaw, 2009
MacMillan VIP Event, Warsaw, 2009
Still smiling after a weekend's workshops on teaching pronunciation and listening
Still smiling after a weekend’s workshops on teaching pronunciation and listening
Setting out my stall
Setting out my stall
III Jornadas de Fonética & Fonología, Mar del Plata
III Jornadas de Fonética & Fonología, Mar del Plata
Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca
Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca
La Salle teachers outside the Museo de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid as part of their course on cooperative and collaborative learning.
La Salle teachers outside the Museo de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid as part of their course on cooperative and collaborative learning.
With organiser and PronSIG activist Pedro Luchini
With organiser and PronSIG activist Pedro Luchini
EGC. IH DOS Conference, London 2012
EGC. IH DOS Conference, London 2012
ELF3 Forum - with Dr Wafa Zoghbor
ELF3 Forum – with Dr Wafa Zoghbor
Pronunciation Matters ETp90
Pronunciation Matters ETp90
Trinity Best Practice workshop, Alicante 2016
Trinity Best Practice workshop, Alicante 2016
SyG. Teacher training with SyG
SyG. Teacher training with SyG
Jornadas Fonética, Mar del Plata
Jornadas Fonética, Mar del Plata
Pronunciation 14s – teaching pronunciation to teenagers can be done
Pronunciation 14s – teaching pronunciation to teenagers can be done
FAAPI, 2013 Buenos Aires
FAAPI, 2013 Buenos Aires
Etp 21 – International Intelligibility
Etp 21 – International Intelligibility
Hugging the life out of ex-TESOL-SPAIN president, Annie MacDonald.
Hugging the life out of ex-TESOL-SPAIN president, Annie MacDonald.
ETp 43 - Going for a Song
ETp 43 – Going for a Song
SyG Week Camp Training, Garaña
SyG Week Camp Training, Garaña
With Trinity teachers in Alicante, Oct 2016
With Trinity teachers in Alicante, Oct 2016
OUP - CLIL workshop, Santander
OUP – CLIL workshop, Santander
Re-thinking goals, priorities and models. Photo by kind permission of Antonio Heredia.
Re-thinking goals, priorities and models. Photo by kind permission of Antonio Heredia.
Taking a break and a change of role while filming training videos for OUP in Madrid.
Taking a break and a change of role while filming training videos for OUP in Madrid.

Tags

accent accents bottom-up processing Bryan Jenner CLIL Cloning comprehensibility connected speech culture dental fricatives diphthongs discrimination ELF ELF pronunciation elision ELT English accents error evaluation fricatives functional load goals grapheme/phoneme correspondence guide words habit formation IATEFL identity intelligibility international intelligibility IPA symbols Jenkins Jennifer Jenkins L1 learner attitudes LFC lingua franca core listening mistakes models mother tongue motivation nativeness principle nuclear stress phonics prejudice primary priorities problems professional development pronunciation pronunciation matters pronunciation teaching reading receptive phonological competence RP schwa sentence stress sound-spelling relationships spelling standard accents stress timing Teaching English as a Lingua Franca technology teenagers tonic tonic stress top-down processing variation vowel length vowel quality vowel quantity vowels weak forms writing young learners

Recent Posts

  • On being retired
  • Z – the end of the road
  • Y?
  • Xenophobia
  • Weak forms
  • Variation
  • U(2)
  • ‘u’ / you / ?

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 299 other subscribers

Recent comments

Z – the end of the r… on Y?
Z – the end of the r… on Weak forms
Z – the end of the r… on Xenophobia
Daniel Barber on Xenophobia
englishglobalcom on Weak forms
James Easton on Weak forms
englishglobalcom on Weak forms
PronSIG Coordinators on Weak forms
englishglobalcom on Weak forms
Daniel Barber on Weak forms

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 299 other subscribers
Follow englishglobalcom on WordPress.com

Calendar

March 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Feb    

Contact me

Calle Dr Joaquín Díaz Esnal, 5
33580, Lieres
Asturias
Spain
+34 669 246 213
Central European Time
GMT +1hr

EGC menu

  • ABOUT EGC
    • Recent work
    • Testimonials, feedback & cv
  • An A–Z of pronunciation
    • ‘A’ is for accent (1)
    • ‘A’ is for accent (2)
    • The bilabials /p/, /b/ and /m/
    • Comprehensibility
    • Dental consonants
    • ELF – English as a lingua franca
    • Fricatives (and functional load)
    • ‘G’ is for goals
    • Habit formation
    • Intelligibility
    • Jenner and Jenkins
    • Kenworthy, J. (1987: 4–9)
    • ‘L’ is for the Lingua Franca Core. What else?
    • Lingua Franca Core (Part 2)
    • From Moscow to MES
    • M is halfway
    • The Nativeness Principle
    • Nativeness (2) – just who do you think you are?
    • (M)other tongue
    • Priorities for pronunciation
    • Quality or quantity – priorities for English vowels
    • Quality in vowels – consistent, intelligible, achievable
    • Receptive phonological competence
    • Stress timed
    • Tonic, tone, teachable
    • Tonic stress
    • ‘u’ / you / ?
    • U(2)
    • Variation
    • Weak forms
    • Xenophobia
    • Y?
  • Articles
  • Blog posts
  • Books
  • Coaching – training tailored to your needs
  • Downloads
  • Links to other blogs
  • Talks & Workshops
    • English as a Lingua Franca
    • Pronunciation
    • Language & Skills
    • ESP & Business English
    • The Culture(s) of English
  • Text – revision and translation services
    • Rates for revision & translation of texts
  • Training – professional development for practising teachers
  • Webinars
  • Contact

Archives

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • englishglobalcom
    • Join 299 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • englishglobalcom
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...