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Five key takeaways from the 2024 PronSIG online conference plenaries
PronSIG’s online conference, ‘Will the AI revolution remove the need for pronunciation teachers?’, on 12 October 2024, was an excellent opportunity to explore and reflect on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on pronunciation instruction.
Accents 2024 Workshops for high school English teachers in Poland
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Date: 12 December 2024
From tapes to AI: navigating the evolution of technology in pronunciation teaching
Pronunciation teaching and learning have long benefited from technology. From the very first cassette players and tapes for drilling and repetition in the 1960s to the current and emerging applications of AI…
Why Teaching the Hidden Patterns of Connected Speech Matters
As English continues to dominate as a global language, the interaction landscape has changed dramatically. The number of non-native speakers (NNS) of English is overtaking the number of native speakers (NS)…
Metalanguage Knowledge: A Closer Look at Teachers’ Knowledge Base of L2 Pronunciation Teaching [Webinar by Joshua Gordon]
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PronSIG Online Conference 2024 (12 Oct 2024)
Register now for the PronSIG Online Conference 2024 (12 Oct 2024)!
How can pronunciation be taught creatively to young learners?
On 13 July 2024, Mara Haslam presented PronSIG’s most recent webinar titled Creative Pronunciation Teaching for Young Learners. Haslam works in the department of Language Education at Stockholm University in Sweden…
PronSIG Online Conference 2024 [Conference Call]
We are now accepting speaker proposals for PronSIG Online Conference 2024 (12 October 2024). Submit yours!
How to avoid shortcomings in pronunciation teaching and how to extend pronunciation work in class
At IATEFL 2024 in Brighton, Adrian Underhill, one of the most well-known names in the field of pronunciation instruction, and former PronSIG collaborator…
Creative Pronunciation Teaching for Young Learners [Webinar by Mara Haslam]
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Come to PronSIG’s Pronunciation Café! #2
Join us at PronSIG’s Pronunciation Cafe on 27 July 2024. Register now!
Four PCE highlights: Pronunciation ‘Unplugged’
As mentioned in our March 2024 post, PronSIG’s Pre-Conference Event (PCE) Pronunciation ‘unplugged’: teachers as resources for low-tech classrooms, on Monday, 15 April 2024, aimed at…
Pronunciation ‘unplugged’: Meet our PCE speakers
Pronunciation ‘unplugged’: teachers as resources for low-tech classrooms will be our Pre-Conference Event (PCE), preceding IATEFL 2024 in Brighton, on 15 April 2024 (Mon). This event…
Choose the theme of PronSIG’s October 2024 Online Conference!
Have a say in the theme of PronSIG’s 2024 Online Conference by participating in our poll. Click on one of the themes to cast your vote!
Four highlights of our Pronunciation Café: Is your kettle on?
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha We are kicking off the 2024 blog posts by looking back at our Pronunciation Café. This online event was open to the public and took …
Pronunciation ‘unplugged’: teachers as resources for low-tech classrooms [PronSIG PCE Pre-Conference Event, IATEFL 2024, online and face to face in Brighton]
Register now for “Pronunciation ‘unplugged’: teachers as resources for low-tech classrooms” [PronSIG (hybrid) PCE Pre-Conference Event], IATEFL 2024
Date: 15th April 2024
5 questions and answers you did not know you desperately needed about phonemic symbols and the phonemic chart
By Ana P Biazon Rocha As a core component of this blog, we have constantly addressed the fears and challenges of many teachers towards teaching pronunciation, and tried our best …
Come to PronSIG’s Pronunciation Café!
Join us at PronSIG’s Pronunciation Cafe on 17 February 2024. Register now!
3 key takeaways from PronSIG’s 2023 Online Conference
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha Participants from all over the world joined PronSIG’s online conference, ‘Musical pronunciation: teaching the perception and production of English prosody’, on 14 Oct 2023 (Sat). …
Are we pronunciation ignorers, entertainers, enthusiasts, and/or teachers? [Webinar by Ana P. Biazon Rocha]
Date: 9 December 2023 (Saturday) at 12:00 UK time
How to teach pronunciation communicatively?
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha As constantly reiterated in this blog ever since its beginning, lack of confidence, skills or adequate training and preparation lead a great number of teachers …
PronSIG Members’ Book Club #3
Third online PronSIG Members’ Book Club meeting – for PronSIG members only!
PronSIG Online Conference 2023 (14 Oct 2023)
Register for the PronSIG Online Conference 2023 (14 Oct 2023)!
Teaching the pronunciation of -ed endings in past regular verbs…and then what?
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha In most course books, especially in lower levels, -ed endings in past regular verbs are a recurrent example of how to integrate pronunciation into lessons. …