Making pronunciation an integral part of your classroom practice

Glasgow 4th   April 2017 ( Day 2)


Making pronunciation an integral part of your classroom practice

An interesting session  thanks to Mark McKinnon  and Nicola Meldrum.  They underlined the importance of focussing on pronunciation in lessons and the close link between pronunciation and listening in ELT.
Here are some  tips  they shared with us online:   

• Listen and learn
• Integrate
• One Thing at a Time
• Step out of Your Teacher's Shoes
• Listening needs Prons

They also presented their  blog which I will  check and the activities in which they are both involved:
as a teacher of  English I feel that often pronunciation is neglected while teaching English and this is one of the reasons for the many difficulties our students might face when they start travelling or move abroad.

The link to the  blog  is this one:

https://teachpronunciation.blog/2017/03/10/teach-pronunciation/

They are also involved in teachers' professional  development courses:

http://www.oxfordtefl.com/


Thanks a lot for the  tips!  I worked online in February  and did an EVO session on  Teaching Listening. I am aware that both  skills  need a lot of activities in class. We should  change the approach to teaching  them.  I will follow the blog about  how to teach pronunciation.  I am sure I will learn a lot!