Piers Messum is one of our 'regulars' - a regular contributor to 'Speak
Out!' and a regular presenter at the annual conference and other SIG
events. What he's been telling us over the years, based on his research,
casts new light on how infants acquire the pronunciation of their L1,
and how the learning of English pronunciation by adults could be made
more effective. His article in issue 39 spins these strands further and,
in doing so, also offers some striking insights into why English sounds
the way it does.

I first met Piers at a series of seminars with Caleb Gattegno in the
1980s. Since then his path has taken him through regions of anatomy and
physiology which are terra incognita to most of us, but has also led him
back to Gattegno's visionary approach to language pedagogy. And for me,
personally, that's another component of the sense of illumination I got
when I read this article.

Jonathan Marks


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> Hi everyone!
> Don't know how, but I seem to have exams to mark already! I thought
> term had just begun.
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