Date: 18th June 2022 (Saturday), 12:00 pm UK time
pronunciation
Takeaways from our PCE event: Part 1 – Reading and Listening
by Ivana Duckinoska-Mihajlovska This year’s PronSIG pre-conference event (16 May) catered for all tastes. Titled Pronunciation and the four skills, our first hybrid event ensured that everyone wrapped up the …
Getting to know our PCE speakers
By Ana Paula Biazon Rocha and Victor Medina Soares As the IATEFL 2022 conference in Belfast approaches (17 May-20 May), PronSIG gets ready for two amazing events: our Pre-Conference Event …
Reflecting on your own teaching of pronunciation through PronSIG’s latest webinars
By Ana Paula Biazon Rocha In February and March 2022, PronSIG’s webinars with Victor Medina, Understanding intelligibility in Pronunciation Instruction, and Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Research-informed pronunciation instruction: Best practice recommendations, respectively, …
Pronunciation Showcase Day [IATEFL 2022]
Join us for Pronunciation Showcase Day at IATEFL 2022 (55th International Conference & Exhibition) on Thursday, 19th May 2022!
Pronunciation and the four skills [Pre-Conference Event IATEFL 2022 (hybrid)]
Pronunciation and the four skills, PronSIG Pre-Conference Event (PCE) at IATEFL 2022, the 55th International Conference & Exhibition Date: 16th May 2022 Welcome to the IATEFL PronSIG Pre-Conference Event (PCE)! …
Research-informed pronunciation instruction: Best practice recommendations [Webinar by Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova]
Register now for PronSIG webinar with Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova,
Date: 19th March 2022 (Saturday), 12:00 pm UK time
Understanding Intelligibility in Pronunciation Instruction [Webinar by Victor Medina]
PronSIG Webinar
Date: 19th February 2022 (Saturday), 12:00 pm UK time
Sound variation and change: key takeaways of PronSIG’s webinar
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha The first PronSIG webinar of 2022 with Thais Cristofaro Silva, ‘How does your mother tongue impact L2 learning?’, focused on answering two essential questions: 1) …
How does your mother tongue impact L2 learning? [Webinar by Thaïs Cristófaro Silva]
PronSIG Webinar
Date: 29th January 2022 (Saturday), 12:00 pm UK time
Top 6 tips on teaching intonation from Lucy Pickering’s sessions for IATEFL PronSIG
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha On 20 November 2021, IATEFL PronSIG invited Lucy Pickering to run two sessions: Ask the Expert, where participants had the chance to ask her questions …
Ask the Expert! PronSIG invites Lucy Pickering [Free Q&A session!]
Register for a free webinar with Lucy Pickering, the author of Discourse Intonation (2018), who will talk to IATEFL Pronunciation SIG (PronSIG) and answer the participants’ questions about intonation!
Date: 20 November 2021 (Saturday), 14:00-15:00 UK time
Teaching discourse intonation in the classroom [exclusive workshop]
An exclusive 60-minute workshop with Lucy Pickering: Teaching discourse intonation in the classroom!
Date: 20 November 2021 (Saturday), 15:15-16:15 UK time
Can anyone think of the children?
In our monthly commentary, our bloggers call for more practical research and experimentation in the Early Years pronunciation classroom.
Top 6 tips for teaching pronunciation from PronSIG’s Online Conference
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha On 02 October 2021, PronSIG’s online conference, Mind, Brain and Pronunciation: How thoughts, emotions, and experiences affect L2 English pronunciation, offered participants a myriad of …
PronSIG Online Conference 2021 videos & slides
Click here to watch PronSIG Online Conference 2021 videos and slides!
PronSIG Online Conference 2021 (2nd October 2021)
PronSIG Online Conference (2nd October 2021): Mind, Brain and Pronunciation: How thoughts, emotions, and experiences affect L2 English pronunciation
Pronunciation and Orthography: Strange Bedfellows?
Can we rely on spelling to help our learners better grasp pronunciation features of English? Explore some ideas on this subject in this post!
Friend or foe? – Orthography in pronunciation learning and teaching [Webinar by Rosane Silveira]
Date: 18th September 2021 (Saturday), 12:00 pm UK time
Reading aloud as a potential pronunciation tool for teaching thought groups
by Ivana Duckinoska-Mihajlovska Recently, we asked our social media followers if they think that reading aloud (RA) is a good pronunciation practice for students (Ss). The feedback was overwhelming with …
Understanding some essential terms and definitions in L2 pronunciation teaching and learning
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha L2 pronunciation teaching and learning involves the consideration of segmental and suprasegmental features and how they affect the intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness of one’s speech, …
The appeal of using podcasts in pronunciation teaching
In this post, we highlight some of the key messages we took away from Jonás Fouz-González’s workshop for PronSIG’s Pre-Conference Event, held on 12 June 2021, where he gave us very interesting ideas for using podcasts in pronunciation teaching.
Top 6 tips for teaching pronunciation using technology from PronSIG’s PCE (12 June 2021)
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha June was a really busy month for PronSIG with our Pre-Conference Event (PCE) day, PronSIG Showcase day and the IATEFL conference event. There were lots …
How to transform classroom activities into pronunciation training
by Ivana Duckinoska More often than not, we hear about pronunciation being marginalized in the EFL classroom and we tend to blame the time-constraints and packed curriculum for that. I …
Pronunciation Showcase Day [IATEFL 2021]
Join us online for Pronunciation Showcase Day at IATEFL 2021 (54th International Conference & Exhibition) on Sunday, 20th June 2021! You will hear four fantastic speakers and take part in …
Pron-tech collaborations: the role of technology in the pronunciation classroom [Pre-Conference Event IATEFL 2021]
Register for ‘Pron-tech collaboration: the role of technology in the pronunciation classroom’, PronSIG Pre-Conference Event (PCE) at IATEFL Online 2021, the 54th International Virtual Conference & Exhibition
Date: 12th June 2021
When to teach pronunciation?
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha If researchers and experts in English pronunciation and pronunciation pedagogy were asked the question posed in the title, I guess most of them, if not …
How should we correct pronunciation mistakes?
by Ana Paula Biazon Rocha When teaching pronunciation, one of the many questions that may arise is how and when to correct our learners’ pronunciation mistakes. We certainly don’t want …
Ideas for fostering phonological awareness in the Early Years class: Training a new generation of Pronthusiasts [Webinar by Viktor Carrasquero]
Date: 17 April 2021 (Saturday), 12:00 pm UK time
Ask the Expert! PronSIG invites Mark Hancock [Q&A session]
Date: 13 March 2021 (Saturday), 10:30 am UK time