Thanks for the refs, Jonathan. I think I'm more concerned by some of the ways that I see Jenkins' work quoted in TESOL books and articles. It seems that some...
Cheers for those Jonathan. Not easy books to find. I did get my hands on a copy of 'Teacher Talk'. I can't help feeling that it's an out-dated approach -...
Hi Dennis, I had a read through the long debate on the teacher training list. Interesting stuff, though there was a lot of 'Bad Science' in my opinion. But I...
Alex, Thanks for writing. I shall certainly try out your mouth work-out, or get Nina to do so when she returns from the Seychelles in two weeks' time. I felt...
I still think some of the 'Birmingham' stuff might be of interest. Or you could look for hints in more general writings such as Tsui: Introducing classroom...
Alex says his mouth work-out might sound like a silly exercise. I think it sounds brilliantly, magnificently silly. How about a more detailed version for Speak...
Yeah, I was too harsh about the Birmingham format for analysis. It does give a basic framework that's fairly effective. Where I find most of the approaches to...
Cheers Jonathan! I've mostly used this in Latin America and it generally results in a lot of giggling (but also I think some learning!). I'll try to pull...
silly Old English gesaelig = happy ... rustic, ignorant > foolish cognate with Greek hilaos = gracious, kindly / hilaros = happy (cf. the name Hilary) and with...
About a Korean studying English in New Zealand: "An interesting theory that he had was that pronunciation is affected by food, because different foods require...
Interesting idea! I've been trying to imagine eating noodles to help my Japanese pronunciation! Just wondering though, for English would it be stuffing chips...
Ah yes, I've always thought that the mouth shape for "tu" was just that needed to suck in a frog's leg or two.... Bestest Anna Joining in!! Anna Bernard EFL...
My company, Learning Technologies International, has created a unique 3D computer animated pronunciation software program, and are interested in selling it in...
Hi Scott, I'm in Japan on holiday at the moment. I'll be attending a conference on Wireless Technology for TESOL at the weekend so I'll see if I can find any...
Alex, please send me your email address and I'll send you a description of our software. Thanks Scott Gannon pronsig_mod <pronsig_mod@...> wrote: Hi...
Dear Colleagues, The British Council and IATEFL are pleased to announce the official launch of the Exeter Online website in the run up to the IATEFL Annual...
Wednesday April 9th is the day of the PronSIG programme at the IATEFL conference in Exeter. Here's the programme: 1025-1110 Bunny Richardson: Negative...
Jonathan, will it be possible to get copies of these presentations? Thanks Scott Gannon Bangkok Jonathan Marks <jonathanmarks@...> wrote: Wednesday April 9th...
I gather from Robin Walker (who is about to take over from me as editor of 'Speak Out!')that all the presenters have agreed to write up their presentations for...
Hi all I just joined up after having wanted to for quite awhile. I'm an English teacher in Germany and have been interested in the topic for sometime now. I...
Hi Scott, Each IATEFL special interest group (Sig) has its own newsletter and ours is called Speak Out!. (The word 'newsletter' doesn't give it credit, I feel,...
Hi Kotus, Thanks for joining. Please feel free to post your thoughts or any questions. Look forward to hearing from you. Cheers, Alex. PronSIG Moderator....
Hi everyone, It was great meeting up with some of you at the IATEFL conference. The pronunciation day was extremely successful. I made the mistake of popping...
Hi everyone, I had planned to write some blog-style comments on learning Japanese pronunciation while I was over in Japan, but I'm afraid I was far too busy...
Dear Alex Interesting posting thanks. I remember years ago when I was living in Germany. I had previously been living in France for two years and was pretty...
Alex wrote: "Any suggestions why "hitori" is often pronounced "sh'tori"? I asked a Japanese friend and she insisted it wasn't true, until we sat down with...
Johnathan (or Alex, my gmail account makes it a little unclear) writes about some of the classical features of spoken English that many natives allegedly deny...
