by Adrian Underhill | Mar 3, 2017 | 2. The Physicality of Pronunciation & Proprioception, 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart, 5. Question & Answer; General Issues
You say the chart is not about teaching symbols, but still the learners are seeing them all the time. And I myself panic when I see the symbols.So what is the purpose of having the symbols there? Could you say more about that? Ok, well, think about this: Instead of...
by Adrian Underhill | Oct 5, 2016 | 2. The Physicality of Pronunciation & Proprioception, 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart, 7. Resources: Pron Charts, Videos, Apps, Books
Pronunciation Teacher Training Videos and Resources In response to a facebook conversation today (thanks Janet, Aphro, Carolyn, Lesley) here is a selection of Pronunciation Teacher Training Videos and Resources for use with the Sound Foundations approach. If you...
by Adrian Underhill | Nov 30, 2015 | 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart, 4. Connected Speech & Comfortable Intelligibility
Three levels of pronunciation: an example activity In the previous post on Comfortable Intelligibility – I suggested using the three levels of pronunciation (Level 1: Sounds: Level 2: Words: Level 3: Connected Speech) as a kind of practical ladder for moving up...
by Adrian Underhill | Mar 3, 2015 | 1. How to make the Sounds of English: The Inside Story, 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart
How to make the English vowel /ʌ/ You can think of a vowel as the result of a certain position of the tongue, jaw and lips. You can also think of a vowel sound as the result of a shape (of the tongue) and a resonant space (created by lip shape and jaw height). I find...
by Adrian Underhill | Feb 26, 2015 | 1. How to make the Sounds of English: The Inside Story, 2. The Physicality of Pronunciation & Proprioception, 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart
Videos from Saturday’s Conference “Accentuate: Bringing pronunciation to the fore” can be viewed at the links below. The conference was put on jointly by IATEFL Pronunciation SIG and NATECLA, at the British Council in London. Click here for the link to the playlist...
by Adrian Underhill | May 20, 2014 | 1. How to make the Sounds of English: The Inside Story, 2. The Physicality of Pronunciation & Proprioception, 3. How to use the Sound Foundations Chart, 7. Resources: Pron Charts, Videos, Apps, Books
Macmillan have just launched my series of 39 short videos available online here Each video is approx 3 minutes, and packed with ideas and info A practical, physical and visible approach, designed to help teachers and students to discover easily how to make Standard...
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