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Hi everyone! Well, 2009 has arrived and everyone I've spoken to in the last few days is stressed about the return to work. Hope you are all coping ok! I'm...
Hello Alex, (et al) and "Akeh omeh, koto yolo" to you too! For those of you who dont know Japanese, they are big-time 'clippers', wherein they will take a...
Dear All, I'm attaching, below, a message from an MA student in Macedonia who is looking for English native speakers to rate and comment on samples of ...
Thanks for the tips. I've been reading up on the "Rendaku" rules for Japanese pronunciation (the rules concerning when certain consonants are voiced) and found...
Hi everyone! Hope the year is going well. Speak Out! 40 has been arriving through letter boxes, and I would normally be posting a summary and inviting...
Hello Alex, and group. Yes, the Spanish rolling /r/ will not help you much in Japanese, unless of course you are feeling very incensed! The only time the...
Hi, Judy Gilbert asked me to forward this to the group: You might find the website below useful. Cambridge University Press has produced a series of...
Hi, Â recently someone posted a very informative message about the pronunciation of "r" for Japanese speakers. I've lost the message and name of the poster....
Hello Scott, i was that poster. Do you have Japanese students in Bankok? Let me be brief: Over 120 years the Japanese chose the letter /r/ to describe their 5...
Here's a great chance to join in for those who can't make it along to the conference: Join us for IATEFL Cardiff Online - 'one of the biggest global teacher ...
hi every body. i have recently joined this group. i am a student of English. my question is about sth interesting in pronunciation or teaching pronunciation....
Hi Mohammad, The range of topics that come under "pronunciation" is what makes it such a fascinating area for me. The areas that interest me most at present...
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...
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...
Hi Alex, Thank you for responding so quickly. Your suggested topic sounds perfect! As you've noted, there is a huge discrepancy in the depth of knowledge in...
Hi everyone! Jonathan Marks just passed me this info about a symposium in Poland you may be interested in. Please take a look. If there are any events...
At the PronSIG Open Forum at the recent Cardiff conference, a number of people expressed an interest in discussing whether, and if so how, it was possible to...
Hello Jonathan and colleagues, My name is David and I write from Madrid (Spain). I do not teach English, but Spanish (and French) as FL. I have studied English...
Hi all! Thanks to Jonathan for a cool set of questions and to David for a great response. I'm going to try to add my response to each question, but it might...
Hi Steph, Glad the idea hit the spot! I'm trying to get my head around the way that stuff works. I think it's the kind of area where research can genuinely...
Hi Alex, I was very interested to read you comments about English as a Global Lingua Franca, especially your students' expected use of English. Students in the...
Hi, Before New Sounds 2010 cited below, there is another conference in Poland about English pronunciation at Lódz, called Accents 2009. This is an annual...
Hi, Steph! ... I agree with you. And I would like to add that some of the Lingua Franca Core features are not practical, e.g., maintaining tense/lax opposition...
Hello group. Just wanted to chime in on this, as i was in attendance for 2 of Andrew Kirkpatrick's plenary sessions at JALT last year and he mentioned a very...
Hi everyone, I joined the group after JALT 2008, but it's taken me this long to post something because I couldn't figure out how to change my sn...until now. ...
PTLC2009 will take place at University College London from midday Thursday August 6th until the evening of Saturday August 8th 2009. The conference is...
Hi Chris, I think this is perhaps the biggest problem with ELF literature - the suggestion that ELF speakers are somehow a homogeneous group. ELF in Europe...
