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Re: In the classroom, is it worth referring to secondary word stress Hiya Jonathan In my experience, if students have trouble with primary stress, then they will also have trouble with secondary stress. And often, even if they Posted - Mon May 14, 2012 1:23 pm	Dan Frost danjfrost Offline Send Email
Re: In the classroom, is it worth referring to secondary word stress Hi Jonathon, There is a study out there which states that although some Portuguese students were able to assign English primary WS, they assign they secondary Posted - Mon May 14, 2012 11:05 am	martinchecklin Offline Send Email
Re: Pronunciation teaching that doesn't work. The sort of background and approach to research that I'm encouraging--to include pronunciation teaching in ELT contexts--is quite akin to these Australians Posted - Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:18 am	Charles Jannuzi elt_in_japan Offline Send Email
Re: Pronunciation teaching that doesn't work. Yes, Dan I agree for the most part. But I'm more willing to extend the term 'research' to include anything that is got empirically bottom up (for top-down Posted - Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:50 am	Charles Jannuzi elt_in_japan Offline Send Email
Re: Pronunciation teaching that doesn't work. My thinking is that each student should be given a "phonetic assessment". The short story I give below should be read to them a few words a a time. They Posted - Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:37 pm	Tom Zurinskas tzurinskas Offline Send Email
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