Welcome to the IATEFL PronSIG Conference 2023!
Musical pronunciation:
Teaching the production and perception of English prosody
(14th October 2023)
Learning the melody of a new language can be challenging. From birth, and even before, we are immersed in the musical patterns of our mother tongue, primed to hear its prosody. When the time comes to begin learning a second language, these prosodic features can stubbornly stick around, transferring into the new language, and leaving traces in our speech which can impact our intelligibility and confuse listeners.
For teachers of English, this transfer is well known, but what is less known is how can we best support students to perceive and produce English’s prosodic features, alleviating their struggles to notice and comprehend its intonation patterns, overcoming ‘stress deafness’, and in turn, pinpointing specific ways they can become more intelligible and effective speakers of English.
In this whole day online conference, IATEFL PronSIG invites you to join us to listen, learn, exchange, and take away a variety of methods and strategies for teaching the music of English.
Registration
The event tickets for the PronSIG Online Conference are available via the IATEFL website. Click the yellow button below to go to the registration page:
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 – Giedrė Balčytytė, The Power of Music in Acquiring the Aspects of English Connected Speech
Closing plenary – Jane Setter, Teaching English intonation: Approaches and priorities
All session speakers
Here are all our speakers on the day:
