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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...
Sure Jose, you can reply directly to my email, which is japaneasynow@... I am new to this group too, and dont quite know the in's and out's... Cheers, c....
Hello Dermott  Sounds really interesting. There must be a huge number of hours involved! Rcently I wanted to explain about corpora to my own adult ESOL...
Hi Sue and Chris, I am providing an outline of what we propose to talk about at IATEFL 2009 (if accepted!). It concerns the nascent Dublin Institute of ...
Well, Dermot, have a Guinness on me! That is one fantastic looking project, especially the pitch/speed variable control. Every single English learner in the...
Two  WOWS! First wow - that's fantastic - what a resource! Second WOW !   what a lot of work for yous!! Thanks for the inspiring goal!  Sue ... From:...
Welcome! I like the simplicity and memorability of the equations. Exactly what 'minus 1' and 'minus 2' are needs elaboration, of course, and the elaboration...
Well, thank you very much, Johnathan, yes, the 'Minus 1 and 2' quotients are really just metaphors for a small change and large change. The real issue is,...
Hi ALL, My name is Yi WANG and I am a PhD student at the Dublin Institute of Technology. My research area is how to help Chinese learners to cope with natural...
Hi everyone! Welcome to those who have joined in the past few weeks and thanks for posting. There's clearly a lot of interesting stuff happening in the world...
Hi all, A "Links" section is now available on this site on the menu to the left. It has actually existed all along, but I hadn't changed the default setting of...
Hi Peter, Thanks for that. I haven't used this one as I work mostly on a Mac and it's not compatible. Does it have advantages over Praat and Wavesurfer? Alex....
Dear Colleagues, My name is Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Teaching Assistant in English Phonetics and Phonology at Skopje University. I am writing this e-mail to...
