Welcome to the IA902 Blog

This is a blog for thoughts, discussions, and links to supplement the IA902 Practical Description of English module, Autumn 2013. Please feel free to leave comments, ask questions, and indeed write your own posts. We only have 10 2-hour classroom sessions together, so it is hoped that this blog will give us the chance to explore a wider range of issues than we might otherwise have time for.

Monday 21 October 2013

Teaching pronunciation

We discussed several resource books for teaching pronunciation in last week's session, particularly Mark Hancock's Pronunciation Games and Ann Baker's Ship or Sheep.  There's also an apparently unrelated website named Ship or Sheep (not sure if it was possible for Ann Baker to copyright the expression "ship or sheep"), and I referred to some clunky but potentially interesting exercises on the Centre for Independent Language Learning website.  Further suggestions will come in future sessions, but I am also very keen to read about your experiences of teaching (or being taught) English pronunciation.  Do you have any tasks or exercises that have worked particularly well for you?  Has reading and discussing the topic sparked off any ideas that you'd like to share?  I'd be very happy to read your thoughts either as comments on this post, or as individual blog posts of your own.

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