Hi everyone! The latest edition of TESOL Quarterly has a focus on the role of theory in TESOL in general. I find that pronunciation is the area with the most...
Dear Alex The questions you ask (Can theory help teachers? Which theories can make a difference? Should teachers bother?) have some points in common with the...
Hi Piers, Sorry about the tabloid subject line - I just like stirring. I was really interested by your post, and I've been studying your PhD over the last...
Dear Alex Thanks for your thoughts (and kind words). You asked about what an articulatory diagram or other representation for teaching vowels might look like....
Hello Does anyone have contact details or can anyone put me in contact with Mark Hancock please? Thanks in advance Anna Anna Bernard EFL Lecturer Ecole...
Hi J.Murphy, You sent your message to the Moderator e-mail, rather than posting it on the site, so I'm copy-pasting it across. To respond to posts, click on...
Hello J. Murphy I think you have been rather unlucky to meet so many teachers with so little knowledge. Having prior knowledge of linguistics and so, I feel,...
Hi Piers, Got to be honest, I haven't had time to check out the articulatory diagrams yet, but will do soon! I suppose a basic question in my mind is this: all...
Hi Anna and J. I think I've worked in different places that coincide with both of your experiences. A central factor seems to be the market for EFL teachers. ...
Dear Alex ... I'd say that sometimes they are, but often not. Which is why teachers have had to develop pedagogical grammars of language (whether they call...
Dear IATEFL PronSIG Members, I am a PhD student researching the teaching of English pronunciation in primary and secondary education in Cyprus. I would like to...
greetings to all from a pronsig newbie, thank you all for presenting your enjoyable and informative discussions. if there is any interest amongst you in...
Welcome, Joel, and thanks for drawing our attention to this article. It should certainly be of interest to other PronSIG members. So have a look, folks, and...
Hi everyone! Sorry for the long break! Summer courses were hectic and then I've just moved to Japan so I've been really busy with a new school, new flat, new...
Hi everyone! Don't know how, but I seem to have exams to mark already! I thought term had just begun. Speak Out! comes through our letter boxes, and we get...
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...
Hi! Thanks for the response Jonathan. I have a question here about practical uses of the theories. I've been in TESOL for about ten years so Gattegno was just...
Hi again! Ok, I re-read that last post and realized that it could be re-stated (metaphorically) as "How can I make an omelette without breaking eggs?" Training...
Alex wrote about teaching unmotivated students. Well, I don't suppose anyone's likely to learn anything very much in the absence of some kind of motivation....
I teach RP intonation to teacher trainees in Mendoza, Argentina, and have found it difficult sometimes to sort both these patterns out in terms of their...
Alex wrote: "a new challenge for me is that my accent, a fairly standardised British English, is non-prestige - they'd prefer Canadian or American." There must...
Hi Jose, Your difficulty with O'Connor and Arnold's range of intonation patterns is completely normal. I'm a native British English speaker and I find it very...
Hi, Alex. Thanks for such a prompt reply. Â You may have got the imporession that I use 'Intonation of Colloquial English' at length and almost exclusively,...
Hi I'm in the middle of my PhD - a sociophonetic study looking at the acquisition of a second dialect in a second language, and I could really do with some...
Hi Jose, The course you're teaching sounds really interesting! Sorry if I implied that you were only using O & A - I didn't mean that! I find that "tonetic"...
Alex Selman invited me to join the PronSIG group - so here we are! We have submitted a proposal to IATEFL 2009 outlining the Dynamic Speech Corpus we are ...
Kudos to ya boys, good luck on the proposal. My name is Chris P. Madden (yes, that an Irish last name; great grandfather left in 1890 for Toronto Canada...)...
Rob Drummond wrote: "I could really do with some information about English pronunciation models used in Polish schools and universities. Basically, I need to ...
Dear Chris (Madden!), Â Your e-mail? Â Jose Tiziani Argentina ... From: japaneasynow <japaneasynow@...> Subject: [iatefl_pronsig] Re: Hello from Dublin...
