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...
Hello, everybody. Just a few ideas on the issue: Jonathan said: 1. There's no agreement about what the significant features of intonation are, or what...
Welcome to David (David Pardo Cossío) and many thanks indeed for your substantial contribution (28.5.09)! I'll just pick one point to comment on for now. You...
Thanks very much, José, for this very persuasive and optimistic set of responses! I certainly agree that adequate teacher training in this field is absolutely...
Hi Takehiko, I was surprised too when I saw that the VOICE project was making no attempt to examine intonation and only very weak notes on pronunciation. It...
Hi Takehiko, Thank you for the VOICE reference - it certainly has the potential to be a valuable resource, but what a shame they haven't included phonetic...
Hi everyone, I just wanted to add a minor point to this discussion. Regarding item 5 'intonation doesn't really matter': on a practical note, it does matter...
Hi Steph, I think the fact that prosodic features are 'tested' in oral exams is an important point. The problem is deciding which aspects of prosody should be...
Hi everyone, Surely "communicative competence" includes not conveying the wrong message-this inevitably means teaching some basic elements of intonation. ...
Hi Alex, that's a very good point, the descriptors are quite vague and, at least by default, they are native-speaker referenced. I can't quote them exactly...
Hi Steph, Alex et al. I read the IELTS rubric, and it does seem pretty detailed and likely to be useful to scoring test takers. However, i noticed that there...
Hello Everyone Long time no write... Nearing the end of 2 months of oral entrance examining into the school, evaluation is very much in the forefront of my...
Hi everyone, This is, I believe, a really pressing issue in TESOL pronunciation. Intelligibility, comprehensibility, native speaker competence... none of these...
And does this distinction (or distinctions) have any significance for pronunciation in ELT? I have my own ideas about answering the question, but I thought I...
Support your answer. Evidence and insights that reflect FLT and FLL might also be helpful. Again, I have my own ideas about the question, but I thought I would...
