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23.013.04 - How can I improve my students' pronunciation of the English language? From theory to practice or how to get from Brummie to RP

Intentions

You will improve your own pronunciation through a better knowledge of the suprasegmental features of the English language. You will improve your students' pronunciation of L3 through the practical classroom application of theoretical concepts learned or reviewed in the first part of this programme. You will explore the pronunciation teaching and learning activities in the official teaching tools (MER) and get some tips to make these more interesting, engaging and efficient.

Date et lieu

3 périodes
Samedi 11 septembre 2021; de 09h30 à 12h00
La Chaux-de-Fonds
11.09.2021
11.07.2021
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Présentation

Programme of 3 courses lasting for 45 minutes each. Each one of these courses will build on the previous one, with the first one bringing in the theoretical foundation on which the 2 subsequent courses will be built. These concepts will find a practical application in the classroom which will partly come from the practitioner's own ressources but also from the official teaching tools. The latter will be enhanced and be made more exciting in order to keep motivation levels up. Course 1: You will obtain some invaluable knowledge on theoretical concepts- syllable-timed language vs. stress-timed language, the 5 tricky ones: liaison, ellision, juncture, assimilation and vowel reduction in unstressed syllables. Course 2: You will be introduced to some classroom techniques intending to introduce and deepen students' understanding of the stress and prominence systems as well as other suprasegmental features of the English language. How to use Underhill's phonemic chart and various other techniques to improve the pronunciation of phonemes which prove difficult to pronounce for French locutors (short and long sounds, diphthongs, 'th') Course 3: How you can apply the techniques learned in course 2 and use the official teaching tools (MER), exploring them to identify pronunciation activities which will need enhancing and improving to make them more appealing to our target audience.
Mots-clés : English / phonology / pronunciation / teaching strategies / reduction of L1 accent

Autres informations

Baker, A. (2010). Ship or sheep? An Intermediate Pronunciation Course (3rd edition), Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Swan, M. and Smith, B. (2001). Learner English: A Teacher's Guide to Interference and Other Problems (2nd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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M. Daniel Bosmans

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