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Hi all! Does anyone out there agree that pronunciation "is often left to the wayside of our teaching" (Ciancio, 2002)? And, if so, why does that happen? And...
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Delinnia H.
delinnia
Aug 10, 2004 5:09 am
Hi, A very good question indeed Marcus. Normally we don't discuss on this topic as we assumed that the English pronunciation varies from one mother tongue to...
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estelleangelinas
estelleangel...
Aug 10, 2004 3:30 pm
Hello, I have always felt that there are always as many ways of pronouncing words as there are people to pronounce them. With as many countries speaking...
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Marcus Lacerda
marcus_arantes
Aug 11, 2004 3:47 am
Dear all, I certainly agree that intelligibility is what matters *most*. However, I also believe that someone's pronunciation affects their listening skills to...
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Coffee Shira
clicktrainer
Aug 11, 2004 5:20 am
Hi, Marcus! ... wayside of our teaching" >(Ciancio, 2002)? And, if so, why does that happen? And how should pronunciation be taught? ... I am not an ESL...
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willmcculloch
Aug 11, 2004 7:17 am
Hi Marcus, thanks for raising a very interesting and important topic. I absolutely agree with the value that you attach to a vital area. Your observation about...
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Diane
dianeilling
Aug 11, 2004 1:19 pm
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html The above link shows the placement of the mouth parts during the production of various English words and...
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Dee Bond
mslj2004
Aug 11, 2004 11:20 pm
Hi everyone At the school at which I am Director of Studies, in China, all teachers use the phonemic chart when teaching vocabulary and pronunciation. They...
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willmcculloch
Aug 16, 2004 11:39 am
Hi Diane, Many thanks for your posting and useful link which has now been added to the WS site at http://www.wordsurfing.co.uk/47352.html in the pronunciation...
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cohenizzy
Sep 7, 2004 8:04 am
When English borrowed a foreign word or phrase, it often re-spelled the borrowed item so that the result looked like common English words. For example, Aramaic...
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Frank Verhoft
frank_verhoft
Sep 7, 2004 9:16 am
<<<Does this type of transliteration happen in other languages?<<< Dear Sir, None of the transliterations you describe occured anywhere else but in your...
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English.Specialist.hu
georgesenglish
Sep 8, 2004 11:13 pm
Hi Izzy and Frank, I find your messages quite valuable - especially as regards Frank's stating that the transliterations in question are but a game of...
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Frank Verhoft
frank_verhoft
Sep 9, 2004 5:31 pm
Hi all, I just started a group on "Nederlands NT2", Dutch as a Second Language: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nederlands_nt2/ "This is a forum for anybody...
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Frank Verhoft
frank_verhoft
Sep 9, 2004 6:14 pm
Hi all, I just started a group on "Nederlands NT2", Dutch as a Second Language: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nederlands_nt2/ "This is a forum for anybody...
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oukhou2000
Sep 16, 2004 9:45 am
Dear lovers of English, I have found an interesting and amazingly wonderful English website: www.nonstopenglish.com On nonstopenglish.com students can: -...
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Marcus Lacerda
marcus_arantes
Sep 16, 2004 3:42 pm
Thank you *very much*! =) ... Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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ubuhlalu
Sep 30, 2004 7:50 pm
Years ago, before CDs and a whole lot of other things had been invented, I owned a program called Vocabulary Management System. It was really simple to operate...
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ubuhlalu
Sep 30, 2004 7:55 pm
I have wondered for some time if it would be possible to accelerate considerably the learning of foreign language vocabulary by making use of hypnosis. It...
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Estelle Angelinas
estelleangel...
Oct 16, 2004 4:21 pm
Hello everybody, I have some students preparing for exams. I need some ideas on how to help them make a notebook that will help them prepare for voc. that...
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willmcculloch
Oct 18, 2004 6:54 am
Hi Costadina, The WS notebooks aren't really designed to simply try to aid the memory of a large number of selected words in the short- term in order to pass...
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Will McCulloch
wslesson
Oct 18, 2004 1:15 pm
Hi - the following article by Shaun Dowling about lexical notebooks will, I hope, be of great interest to other members of this group - and I look forward to...
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Diane
dianeilling
Oct 18, 2004 6:59 pm
Hi all, I teach ESL and have been interested in the idea of the lexical notebooks. I've told several of my students about them and encouraged them to begin one...
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Steve
steven.neufeld@...
Oct 19, 2004 1:06 pm
Diane Research suggests that keeping a vocabulary notebook is really important in order to learn vocabulary most effectively. However, it does take a lot of...
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Delinnia H.
delinnia
Oct 19, 2004 2:44 pm
Thanks Will. I'll try to read the text. Regards Delinnia Will McCulloch <wslesson@...> wrote: Hi - the following article by Shaun Dowling about lexical...
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Jacob
jrichman1999
Dec 11, 2004 12:31 am
Hi Everyone! Interactive Crossword Puzzles is a new, challenging educational game that I just added to my website: Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun ...
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Estelle
estelleangel...
Dec 11, 2004 12:32 am
Hello, I have been using word games alot in my lessons and my students enjoy them. I can't help wondering though whether they really help them remember . Is...
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Delinnia H.
delinnia
Feb 12, 2005 1:37 pm
Hello Will, How are you? It's been quite sometime that I didn't receive any new mails from you. I hope this site is still running. Have a nice weekend. ...
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NELLIE DEUTSCH
nelliemuller
Feb 12, 2005 1:45 pm
Hi Delinnia, I have been trying to get hold of Will since September. Let me know if you hear from him. Last I heard he was on his way to the Philippines. ...
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Paul East
shitenoggle
Feb 12, 2005 2:05 pm
Hi Nellie & Delinnia Don´t worry ladies, Will is recovering in the UK after his adventure in the Philippines – I will leave it to him to give you the sordid...
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Delinnia H.
delinnia
Feb 12, 2005 5:45 pm
Hello Paul, Does anything happen to Will during his trip to the Philippines? Hope he will be fine soon. We pray for his speedy recovery. Regards, Delinnia ... ...
