Tom Garside
How to teach pronunciation 6: Find your rhythm with sentence stress
In this penultimate article about teaching pronunciation, we look at another suprasegmental pronunciation system which works across
Tom Garside
- Jan 29, 2020
- 5 min
How to teach pronunciation 5: Understanding and teaching word stress
In the next three articles in this series about pronunciation teaching, we will look at a tricky area of phonology which is often overlooked
Tom Garside
- Jan 3, 2020
- 6 min
How to teach pronunciation 4: What can the Phonemic Chart do for you (and your students)?
This article aims to show why the use of IPA is an essential tool for teaching and learning pronunciation, and that it is worth the effort
Tom Garside
- Dec 19, 2019
- 3 min
How to teach pronunciation 3: Accent and Identity
There is a trend in language centres to teach ESOL students how to speak ‘properly’, without an ‘accent’. The rise in the number of ‘accent
Tom Garside
- Dec 4, 2019
- 4 min
How to teach pronunciation 2: Drilling
Drilling, or the teacher-led ‘call and response’ activity which anyone who has learnt a second language remembers well, is probably the most
Tom Garside
- Nov 23, 2019
- 3 min
How to teach pronunciation Part 1: Phonics vs phonology
Pronunciation is an aspect of ESOL teaching which is often misunderstood. Clearly, pronunciation is an essential feature of students’ langua
Tom Garside
- Nov 10, 2019
- 5 min
Teaching Language Skills Pt 5: Writing skills and sub-skills
As a productive language skill, writing is much more than simply putting words on paper. A complex set of linguistic and cognitive processin
Tom Garside
- Oct 7, 2019
- 7 min
Teaching language skills Part 4: Listening skills and subskills
So much of what we mean is unspoken. The way we use cultural phrases, idioms and metaphor, the tone of voice, facial expression and emotion
Tom Garside
- Sep 30, 2019
- 7 min
Teaching language skills Part 3: Reading skills and subskills
Any written text is by definition intended for someone to read. The purpose of written language is to communicate ideas between people
Tom Garside
- Sep 23, 2019
- 8 min
Teaching language skills Part 2: Are your students speaking with their mouths or with their minds?
Speaking is central to use of language. Of all the skills we use when we learn, most describe proficiency in another language as speaking it
Tom Garside
- Sep 16, 2019
- 6 min
Teaching language skills Pt 1: Are you really teaching language skills in your lessons?
When we think about teaching the four language skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening, we are really thinking about developing...
Tom Garside
- Sep 9, 2019
- 12 min
How do you deal with pronunciation in class? Moving from sounds to systems
Pronunciation is one of the fundamentals of language learning. It is the primary factor in spoken language when it comes to understanding
Tom Garside
- Jul 22, 2019
- 10 min
5 Misconceptions about English Tenses
This article aims to clarify five common examples which come up for students and teachers, to help us understand the connected relationships
Tom Garside
- Apr 22, 2019
- 4 min
Gamifying pronunciation work through phoneme card games
Pronunciation can be a tricky beast. The range of accents, national and international varieties of spoken English result in very few