Teaching Pronunciation

Course Summary

This short, highly intensive methodology and language improvement course is for teachers who wish to learn a wide variety of creative and motivating ways to teach pronunciation. You will also work on and improve your own pronunciation.

Programme of the training activities

• Teaching and learning the sounds of English (phonemes) in an interesting, learner centered manner.
• Creative techniques and approaches for teaching and learning stress, rhythm and intonation.
• How to use simple drama techniques to make teaching and learning pronunciation more enjoyable and memorable.
• How to incorporate pronunciation work into grammar and vocabulary lessons.
• Examining and adapting pronunciation materials.
• Intelligibility or "native speaker perfection?" Models and objectives in pronunciation teaching.

Is this the right course for me?

• Yes - if you want to participate in an energising, one-week methodology and language improvement course.
• Yes - if you feel you only have a limited range of approaches for teaching pronunciation and want to widen it in a short period of time.
• Yes - if you want to improve your own pronunciation while at the same time learn how to teach it creatively, effectively and with more confidence

Expected results
As a result of attending this course, the participants will gain a solid understanding of the phonetic and phonological system and will be exposed to a rich variety of techniques to teach the various aspects of pronunciation.

If this is not the course for you, please consider one of the following:

• English for Primary Teachers or English for Secondary Teachers for a more language focused course.

Programme of the training activities day by day:
Please note this is an example of a daily programme. Course content may often be usefully adapted to incorporate the needs of each specific group.

Week 1

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday AM 9.30-10.30 Introductions and group bonding.Group formation activities Revision.Vowels v consonants Intonation 2 Discourse intonation. Proclaiming and referring Drama and pronunciation Simple but effective activities for teaching pronunciation An overview of pronunciation materials 2 Adapting and supplementing 11.00-12.30 Needs analysis and goal setting Stress. Word stress and stress in extended utterances Features of connected speech.Juncture, assimilation and catenation An overview of pronunciation materials 1. Examining and evaluating examples of published materials Workshop. Correction techniques and troubleshooting PM 14.00-15.30 An overview of all elements of pronunciation. Teaching sounds. Introduction to the phonemic chart Intonation 1 What it is and what it does and how to teach it Incorporating aspects of pronunciation into your everyday teaching Pronunciation models. The validity of non native model

Recommended reading: Please note it is not necessary to buy or bring these books to the course.

• "Sound Foundations" A. Underhill (Heinemann) 1994
• "Intonation in Context" B. Bradford (CUP) 1988
• "Phonology of English as an International Language" J. Jenkins (OUP) 2000

Type of the certification awarded in the language of the training:
Attendance certificate detailing topics covered and course content.