Welcome to the IATEFL PronSIG Conference 2025!
Beyond Intelligibility:
Expanding Our Approach to Pronunciation Instruction
(25th October 2025)
Pronunciation teaching often focuses on helping English language learners become intelligible, i.e. ensuring they can be understood by listeners. While this remains a vital and necessary goal and should continue to be a priority in our everyday teaching, we cannot deny that sometimes real-life communication demands more from our students. In such circumstances, we have to go ‘beyond intelligibility’ in order to find the most suitable means to provide support.
But what do we mean by ‘beyond intelligibility’? In this one-day online event, we hope to explore the additional factors which impact learners’ pronunciation and broader communicative competence such as the role of fluency, prosody, pragmatics, and speaker confidence. This theme also provides an opportunity to investigate finer points and dynamics such as interactional nuance, listener engagement, and emotional expression in speech.
Registration
The event tickets for the PronSIG Online Conference are now available via the IATEFL website. Click the yellow button below to go to the registration page:
Fees:
Non-member 10 GBP, IATEFL member 7 GBP, free for IATEFL PronSIG members – using discount code – please email [email protected] for this code.
Schedule and Programme
The online conference will take place on Zoom and to view the programme, please click below. Please note sessions are subject to change.
Plenary Speakers
Opening plenary
Amanda Baker, Teaching the impossible: Pragmatics and intonation!
Closing plenary
Donna Brinton, Effective pronunciation instruction: beyond controlled, guided, and free
Session speakers
Click on the images below to find more information about our speakers on the day:
