Hi Stephanie,

Have you got any initial ideas to work from?
Given your interest in technical phonology, Japanese and that you want something
applicable to teaching... How about a comparison of how reductions occur in
casual speech in Japanese and English? There's been a lot of research but I
haven't seen attempts to transfer it properly to teaching. I'm working in Japan
- it would be interesting to see if there are short-cuts to good pronunciation.
There's a big focus on English as a Lingua Franca in Europe at the moment. Does
that apply in Australia? (Oh, are you in Australia?)

Do let us know how you get on,

All the best,

Alex.



--- In iatefl_pronsig@..., "stephanie gilkes"
<stephaniegilkes@...> wrote:
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> Hello PronSIG members,
>
> Can anyone help? I'm looking for a research topic (in the area of phonology
and TESOL) and time is running out! Aaargh!
>
> I have an honours degree in phonology (topic: stress-conditioned allomorphy in
Ngayarda languages of Western Australia) and would like to continue researching
in phonology, but now in relation to TESOL. I have taught English in Japan and
Australia and now examine for IELTS, so anything that looks at phonology in
relation to one of those contexts would be most relevant.
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> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Stephanie
>