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    How to teach pronunciation 6: Find your rhythm with sentence stress
    Tom Garside
    • Feb 13, 2020
    • 6 min

    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
    How to teach pronunciation 5: Understanding and teaching word stress
    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
    How to teach pronunciation 4: 
What can the Phonemic Chart do for you (and your students)?
    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
    How to teach pronunciation 3: Accent and Identity
    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
    How to teach pronunciation 2: Drilling
    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
    How to teach pronunciation Part 1:                Phonics vs phonology
    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
    Teaching Language Skills Pt 5: Writing skills and sub-skills
    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
    Teaching language skills Part 4: Listening skills and subskills
    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
    Teaching language skills Part 3: Reading skills and subskills
    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
    Teaching language skills Part 2: Are your students speaking with their mouths or with their minds?
    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
    Teaching language skills Pt 1: Are you really teaching language skills in your lessons?
    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...
    How do you deal with pronunciation in class? Moving from sounds to systems
    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
    5 Misconceptions about English Tenses
    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
    Gamifying pronunciation work through phoneme card games
    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
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