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Three Highlights from IATEFL Manchester Talks and Workshops

23 de maio de 2015

While technology has become a powerful tool to share information, talking to people face-to-face still remains unrivalled. Enjoying a meal together or connecting with others through a handshake — or even a few words, creates a synergy that promotes feelings of trust and collaboration; it helps us build stronger relationships and a feeling of belonging....Read More

Lesson Ideas, Pronunciation, Reflections about Education, Resources, Teacher Development

Anna Hasper, Christopher Smith, critical thinking, Dimitrius Primalis, error correction, feedback, IATEFL, Luke Meddings, pronunciation

Teaching pronunciation

25 de fevereiro de 2015

by Catarina Pontes

Teaching pronunciation in the English classroom is of great importance – it helps learners communicate better, convey their messages more effectively and sound more natural. Yet, this tends to be a rather marginalized area in EFL classrooms around the globe. Helping learners to sound better, to recognize different accents and varieties of English, and also...Read More

Language Acquisition

awareness, pronunciation

You Will Survive: Teaching With Songs – Part 01

15 de junho de 2014

by Adir Ferreira

Music has always played a very important part of my life. My dad used to play in a forró band, my older brother is an accomplished guitar player and later in life I ended up becoming a professional singer. Songs were present in my classes a lot and in 2012 I decided to gather up...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Resources

Music, pronunciation, songs, vocabulary

Why would a cat chase a hat?

24 de maio de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

Here’s one more post with ideas and suggestions for helping our learners become aware of pronunciation areas which are essential for their intelligibility, and overcome their difficulties. This time let’s focus on a very common Brazilian pronunciation problem which fortunately teachers and more recent course books (like Richmond’s new English ID series) have been giving...Read More

Games, Pronunciation

Brazilian learners, classroom activity, intelligibility, priorities, pronunciation

Would you like a cough?

23 de abril de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

Cecilia Lemos’s today’s post about the importance of intelligibility when teaching pronunciation made me think it is time I went beyond my two previous posts – where I talked about investigating Brazilian learners’ specific pronunciation needs and tackling their intelligibility problems – and move on to something more specific and practical. What do we know about...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Pronunciation

Brazilian learners, intelligibility, lingua franca, priorities, pronunciation

Intelligi….what?

23 de abril de 2014

by cecilialemos

For quite some time now, I have been trying to lower my adult students’ affective filters about their pronunciation difficulties. These affective filters (proposed by Stephen Krashen) “(…) acts to control the amount and quality of input learners receive.” (Thornbury, 2006 p.8). Affective filters can include motivation, self-confidence and anxiety. Anyone who has taught or...Read More

Pronunciation, Skills, Teacher Development

adult students, communication, ELF, intelligibility, pronunciation

Pronunciation – prioritizing is paramount

20 de fevereiro de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

The teaching of English pronunciation is such a challenge. Maybe because there is so much to accomplish that we often feel overwhelmed, and perhaps even insecure of our own abilities to give learners what they need. Most of us will let the course books tell us what to do and when to do it, as...Read More

Pronunciation

communication, focus, intelligibility, lingua franca, priorities, pronunciation, teaching

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