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The IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group Discussion Group.

A forum for discussion of all aspects of pronunciation in English Language Teaching, whether you are interested in classroom methodology, teacher training, phonetics, phonology, or wish to find answers to tricky questions.

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Intelligibility...
Hi everyone, This is, I believe, a really pressing issue in TESOL pronunciation. Intelligibility, comprehensibility, native speaker competence... none of these
Posted - Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:28 pm
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Re: "There's no agreement..."
Hello Everyone Long time no write... Nearing the end of 2 months of oral entrance examining into the school, evaluation is very much in the forefront of my
Posted - Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:30 am
BERNARD Anna
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Re: "There's no agreement..."
Hi Steph, Alex et al. I read the IELTS rubric, and it does seem pretty detailed and likely to be useful to scoring test takers. However, i noticed that there
Posted - Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:39 am
Chris P. Bluetree
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Re: "There's no agreement..."
Hi Alex, that's a very good point, the descriptors are quite vague and, at least by default, they are native-speaker referenced. I can't quote them exactly
Posted - Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:29 am
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Re: "There's no agreement..."
Hi everyone, Surely "communicative competence" includes not conveying the wrong message-this inevitably means teaching some basic elements of intonation.
Posted - Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:38 pm
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