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Pronunciation does not have to be a separate activity in class. You can direct your student’s attention to pronunciation in a variety of ways: Listen to recordings from text books / podcasts / computer downloads, etc. Then you can: Choose a short passage and ask your student questions about the pronunciation and the accents Do [...]

Many learners of English are keen to ‘lighten’, or even lose their L2 accents. They have various reasons, which perhaps include an aim of appearing  more fluent in the language or being less conspicuous in the wider society. Or maybe their goal of minimizing an L2 accent is linked to a perception of attaining and [...]

One way of giving pronunciation lessons is to start with the sounds of single words. While this is useful up to a point, in order to communicate we speak in phrases and sentences. Now, the sounds that we have targeted by using single words, will change, depending on the sounds that proceed and follow them [...]

Observers of one‐to‐one English classes often say that there is one important area of the language, pronunciation, which is seldom taught, or even not taught at all. The absence of pronunciation teaching from one‐to‐one classrooms might, at first, seem rather surprising, given that the learner is unlikely to have a similar opportunity again, of experimenting [...]