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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 stret...

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 overloo...

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 ‘acce...

Tom Garside

Dec 4, 2019
3 min

How to teach pronunciation 2: Drilling

Myth two: Drilling can be used to teach vocabulary and grammar Drilling, or the teacher-led ‘call and response’ activity which anyone who...

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’ lan...

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 proces...

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

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
3 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 stan...

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How to teach pronunciation 6: Find your rhythm with sentence stress

How to teach pronunciation 5: Understanding and teaching word stress

How to teach pronunciation 4: What can the Phonemic Chart do for you (and your students)?

How to teach pronunciation 3: Accent and Identity

How to teach pronunciation 2: Drilling

How to teach pronunciation Part 1: Phonics vs phonology

Teaching Language Skills Pt 5: Writing skills and sub-skills

Teaching language skills Part 4: Listening skills and subskills

Teaching language skills Part 3: Reading skills and subskills

Teaching language skills Part 2: Are your students speaking with their mouths or with their minds?

Teaching language skills Pt 1: Are you really teaching language skills in your lessons?

How do you deal with pronunciation in class? Moving from sounds to systems

5 Misconceptions about English Tenses

Gamifying pronunciation work through phoneme card games