pronunciation in efl classes
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Teaching pronunciation to English learners is more than "repeat after me" and more than theory and looking at pictures. Let's take a multisensory approach.TRANSCRIPT
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Pronunciation:Quick Tips and
Presentation Tricks
(Using your senses approach)
Robert J. DickeyKeimyung University
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Elicitation Ahead!
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Issues
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Issues
• Student Wants vs. Needs
• Theory (Phonology & Phonetics vs. Phonics)
• Segmentals vs. Suprasegmentals
• International Varieties of English & “the Core” vs. Target (US, UK, Australia, etc)
• Can’t teach what you don’t speak???
• “KATUSA disease” (‘fluency’ first?)
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Using the Senses inTeaching Pronunciation?
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Using the Senses inTeaching Pronunciation?
1. See (Visual)
3. Taste (Delicious)
5. Smell (Nasal)
7. Time (Rhythm)
9. Adventure and Fun! (Openness)
2. Hear (Audio)
4. Feel (Tactile/Kinesthetic)
6. Reason (Sensible)
8. Decorum (Culture)
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Focus on the Mechanical(from Marc Helgesen Aug 12 2010)
• Source of Sounds? (Think “Why”)
• Silent Speaking (Raising Awareness)
• Visualization (See Success)
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Focus on the Mental
• Native-speaker Awareness of L1 (Consciousness-Raising)
• What’s “Impossible”? (Openness)
• Visualization (See Success)
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Pronunciation’s Continuum of Complexity
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Let’s consider illustrations(visual-based learning tools)
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Let’s consider illustrations(visual-based learning tools)
• What have you seen/used?
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Let’s consider illustrations(visual-based learning tools)
• What have you seen/used?
– Consider “beat” / “bit” / “bet”
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Textbook drawing /i/ ( e )
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5-second drawing /i/ ( e )
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Dynamic Imagery /i/ ( e )
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What else could we do?
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What else could we do?
• Duration (long “e” versus very short “I”)
• Teach tenseness (muscles) with fingers on mouth
• Teach tenseness with elbows against ribs
• Think Piano (scales)
• L1 referents?
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Morley’s Cardinal Vowel Quadrilateral
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Cook’s Jaw & Lip Positions
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Hewings’ Lip Positions
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Hancock/Sylvie Mouth Images
Hancock, M., Sylvie, D. (2007).English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate.
Cambridge Univ Press.
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American Phonetic Spellings
Webster’s NewWorld Students’ Dictionary (Macmillan/Simon&Schuster, 1992)
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Underhill’s IPA Chart
Underhill, A. (1994). Sound Foundations. Macmillan.
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Forrest’s GA Variant
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Dillon’s Online Sounds
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speechinaction.com
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Bilabial/Fricative Comparison
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Hewings’ Front & Back Vowels
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Hewings’ R & L
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S – Sh – Th2 Quickdraw
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Minimal Pairs
• She sells seashells by the seashore (Try with the “hand-jive”)
• Leo the lion loved little lambs for lunch
• Larry’s red Lemans raced Roy’s yellow roadster
• The zebra joined the giraffe in the zoo.
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Syllables: Vowel-Consonant Mix
• The shortest spoken word in the English language is “it.” Why?
• Some consonants (can) change the flavor of some vowels. Examples?
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Word-level Intonation
• Noun vs Verb stress ( ‘record, re‘cord )
• Two, three, four syllable stress– Rhythm (timing)– Duration (time length)– Volume (loudness)– Emphasis (attack, kinesthetic, other)
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Dynamic Imagery (Lengths)
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Sentence-level Intonation
• Common patterns– Simple Statements– Yes/No Questions vs. Other Questions
• Drawing patterns <dots/dashes, lines…>
• Stressed items(new thoughts, personal emphasis, etc)
I really like Jim’s red car (red car)
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Guides on common issues
Hewings, M. (2004). Pronunciation Practice Activities. Cambridge Univ. Press.