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Ricardo Sili

Who’s laughing?

20 de julho de 2014

The first time I saw these images, and others like them, my immediate reaction was to laugh and think: How can people be so stupid? Why didn’t they ask someone who can actually speak English to tell them what the correct language was? Also, when on board most flights of Brazilian airlines, and listening to the ‘delightful’...Read More

Reflections about Education

Brazilian learners, priorities

Why would a cat chase a hat?

24 de maio de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

Here’s one more post with ideas and suggestions for helping our learners become aware of pronunciation areas which are essential for their intelligibility, and overcome their difficulties. This time let’s focus on a very common Brazilian pronunciation problem which fortunately teachers and more recent course books (like Richmond’s new English ID series) have been giving...Read More

Games, Pronunciation

Brazilian learners, classroom activity, intelligibility, priorities, pronunciation

Would you like a cough?

23 de abril de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

Cecilia Lemos’s today’s post about the importance of intelligibility when teaching pronunciation made me think it is time I went beyond my two previous posts – where I talked about investigating Brazilian learners’ specific pronunciation needs and tackling their intelligibility problems – and move on to something more specific and practical. What do we know about...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Pronunciation

Brazilian learners, intelligibility, lingua franca, priorities, pronunciation

“Manamaskim“ the same as “My nay me eesh king“?

20 de março de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

I was wondering what I was going to write about for this month’s post, when a conversation with a friend last Saturday made me think about my previous post, so here is a bit more about pronunciation and intelligibility. I hope you find it useful. My friend was talking about his experience as an EFL...Read More

Pronunciation

Brazilian learners, intelligibility, lingua franca, priorities, pronunciation errors

Pronunciation – prioritizing is paramount

20 de fevereiro de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

The teaching of English pronunciation is such a challenge. Maybe because there is so much to accomplish that we often feel overwhelmed, and perhaps even insecure of our own abilities to give learners what they need. Most of us will let the course books tell us what to do and when to do it, as...Read More

Pronunciation

communication, focus, intelligibility, lingua franca, priorities, pronunciation, teaching

Is Johnny really sitting on the bench?

20 de janeiro de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

When I was about 13 my English teacher showed us a picture of some children playing in a park. All was going well – I could understand what she was saying, and felt very clever – when she suddenly said something that startled and puzzled me so much that I just stopped paying attention to...Read More

Grammar

Brazilian learners, grammar, L1, learning, learning process, Portuguese, present continuous, presentation