Register now for “Pronunciation ‘unplugged’: teachers as resources for low-tech classrooms” [PronSIG (hybrid) PCE Pre-Conference Event], IATEFL 2024
Date: 15th April 2024
pronunciation
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. …
Balancing Research and Pedagogy: Lessons Learned from an Extracurricular Pronunciation Training for Turkish EFL Students [Webinar by Tarik Uzun]
Register for IATEFL PronSIG webinar with Tarik Uzun!
Date: 23 September 2023 (Saturday) at 13:00 UK time
Are we, non-native speakers of English, not proud of ourselves when communicating in the language?
On 08 June 2023, we (Ana and Viktor, PronSIG’s joint bloggers) had the chance to attend a Cambridge English webinar, ‘How to become a proud non-native speaker of English’, with Jiri Horak. It aimed to discuss what usually influences learners’ confidence when communicating in English, and provide teachers with examples of ready-made activities and ideas to be implemented in their lessons. It was divided into four main aspects.
PronSIG Online Conference 2023 [Conference Call]
We are now accepting speaker proposals for PronSIG Online Conference 2023 (14 October 2023). Submit yours!
Highlights from our 2023 Pre-Conference Event – Part 2: Michael Burri and Isabella Fritz bridge the gap between research and practice
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha Following-up from our May post, where we reflected on the highlights of Catarina Pontes and Mark Hancock’s sessions in PronSIG’s Pre-Conference Event (PCE) (17 Apr …
Highlights from our 2023 Pre-Conference Event – Part 1: Catarina Pontes and Mark Hancock address the field
Read about our key takeaways from two of our PCE workshops, which took place on 17th April 2023.
Teacher development and pronunciation: Meet our PCE Speakers
Find out more about PronSIG’s PCE 2023 speakers!
Teacher development and pronunciation: Feel the fear and teach it anyway! [PronSIG & TDSIG Pre-Conference (hybrid) Event IATEFL 2023]
Register now for “Teacher development and pronunciation: Feel the fear and teach it anyway!”, PronSIG & TDSIG hybrid Pre-Conference Event (PCE) at IATEFL 2023, the 56th International Conference & Exhibition in Harrogate, UK
Date: 17th April 2023
‘I want to speak like a native speaker’: Do students really know what they mean?
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha New year, new resolutions…old issues? At the end of 2022, I faced a challenging situation involving pronunciation teaching, and I think the best way to …
PronSIG Members’ Book Club #2
Second online PronSIG Members’ Book Club meeting – for PronSIG members only!
PronSIG Online Conference 2022 (1 Oct 2022)
Register for the PronSIG Online Conference 2022 (1 Oct 2022): Exploring effective pronunciation
assessment practices in the English language classroom
Diagnostic testing: the first step to assess learners’ pronunciation
By Ana Paula Biazon Rocha In the September and October blog posts, we discussed the relevance and the challenges of pronunciation assessment in reference to PronSIG’s annual conference, Exploring effective …
Embodied pronunciation instruction: empirical evidence and recent findings [Webinar by Florence Baills & Pilar Prieto]
Date: 19 November 2022 (Saturday) at 13:00 UK time
Key takeaways of PronSIG’s October Conference on Pronunciation Assessment
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha PronSIG’s Conference, Exploring effective pronunciation assessment practices in the English language classroom, on 01 Oct 2022, was an extremely successful and enriching event which shed …
What pronunciation teachers can learn from international teaching assistants [Webinar by Vijay Ramjattan]
Date: 24th September 2022 (Saturday), 12:00 pm UK time
Getting ready for PronSIG’s October Conference ‘Exploring effective pronunciation assessment practices in the English language classroom’
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha Among the “WH-issues of pronunciation instruction” (I’m coining the expression, what do you think?!), namely why, how and when to teach pronunciation and what to …
Teaching syllable structure as an effective learning tool
by Ivana Duckinoska-Mihajlovska Words with more than one syllable, polysyllabic words, can sometimes cause difficulties for learners, especially less proficient ones, when reading. They may focus on orthography, without considering …
PronSIG Online Conference 2022 [Conference Call]
We are now accepting speaker proposals for our October online conference being (1st October 2022) in collaboration with IATEFL TEASIG (the Testing, Evaluation and Assessment Special Interest Group of IATEFL).
Teaching pronunciation a little or a lot: is there a precise measurement?
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha ‘Of all the aspects of language – vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, spelling, the four skills and so on – pronunciation is probably the one that needs …
PronSIG Members’ Book Club
First online PronSIG Members’ Book Club meeting – for PronSIG members only!
Takeaways from our PCE event: Part 2 – Speaking and Writing
by Ivana Duckinoska-Mihajlovska PronSIG’s Pre-Conference Event (16 May), Pronunciation and the four skills, offered us a myriad of ideas and tips on how to integrate pronunciation into our lessons. At …