Hi all! Just to let you know that I also joined the group. Jane, thanks for the invitation. The website at www.rdg.ac.uk looks great. Well done! Biljana...
... Well, the list is what the list-members make it - but with Alex in charge, I'm sure things will hot up. Welcome, Pam! -- Dr Jane Setter Lecturer in...
Hi Everyone! Great to see people signing up. What happens on the site is essentially up to you. At the moment you are all able to post messages, vote in polls...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the iatefl_pronsig group: Computer pronunciation software is a useless gimmick. Pronunciation can only...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the iatefl_pronsig group: "Discourse Intonation" is both too complex for learners to accept, and too...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the iatefl_pronsig group: Pronunciation can only be taught through drills. o Agree o Disagree To vote,...
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Sep 23, 2007 8:22 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the iatefl_pronsig group: British “Received Pronunciation” is the best model for pronunciation...
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Sep 23, 2007 8:23 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the iatefl_pronsig group: Pronunciation teaching has no place in Communicative Language Teaching. o...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the iatefl_pronsig group: A person’s voice is their identity - it is immoral to impose an accent...
How fair would it be to claim that pronunciation and listening go hand in hand - poor pronunciation skills inevitably mean poor listening, etc. Or is this just...
As a teacher of aeronautical English to native French speaking students, I spend much of my time working with and analysing pronunciation and listening....
Dear Robin What I'm writing comes from my own experience, but I would have to say that pronunciation and listening are inextricably bound - but only so far....
Hi, This poll seems a bit ambivalent to me. I certainly think that Communicative Language Teaching OUGHT to have a place for pronunciation teaching - but after...
"Discourse Intonation is both too complex for learners to accept, and too simplified to be useful." Discourse Intonation (DI) is in essence mechanically simple...
Have you read Wayne Rimmer's article "Syntax and pronunciation" in Speak Out! 37? If not, do - it makes some very interesting and valid observations about how...
Hi everyone! Thanks to all of you who have voted in polls and posted your thoughts. I must apologize as I've been a bit distracted over the last month writing...
Hi everyone, Well, there were 7 votes against this and only 1 for, yet drilling seems to be one of the most popular ways of teaching pronunciation. Course...
Well there's a clear consensus here, but I have to agree to Peter's post that pronunciation has been excluded from much of present teaching. Yule & Brown said...