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Pronunciation

Why would a cat chase a hat?

24 de maio de 2014

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

Intelligi….what?

23 de abril de 2014

by cecilialemos

For quite some time now, I have been trying to lower my adult students’ affective filters about their pronunciation difficulties. These affective filters (proposed by Stephen Krashen) “(…) acts to control the amount and quality of input learners receive.” (Thornbury, 2006 p.8). Affective filters can include motivation, self-confidence and anxiety. Anyone who has taught or...Read More

Pronunciation, Skills, Teacher Development

adult students, communication, ELF, intelligibility, 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

Send the maid – Is Pronunciation Just anoder Coggy in da Will?

24 de janeiro de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

I bet you might be trying to make sense of the phonics above. I wonder how you think this might impair one’s understanding. Of the many factors which contribute to how well a person speaks English, pronunciation seems to be really salient. Consequently, I believe that having a sound knowledge of pronunciation is important for...Read More

Pronunciation

exposure, fluency, intelligibilty, native-like, pronunciation work, speaking skills

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