Expert English Pronunciation, Accent Reduction & Fluency
Teach Pronunciation? Dump the IPA! Get Judy Tompson’s truly ingenious, highly practical, totally student friendly EPA for teaching the sounds of English, free on her website.Click to Download Source: EPA Vowel Color Chart | Thompson Language Center [bctt tweet=”Dump the IPA! Make Read More …
One of the reasons it sounds different when you hear someone speaking a different language is because the actual sounds they use are different; they have a sound code that’s specific to that language Source: How bilinguals switch between languages Read More …
When presented with English words containing either of these sounds, brain imaging studies show that only a single region of a Japanese speaker’s brain is activated, whereas in English speakers, two different areas of activation show up, one for each Read More …
[bctt tweet=”For Japanese, hearing, producing differences between English sounds require rewiring of brain circuitry.”] Read more here. What happens in the brain when you learn a language? | Education | The Guardian
Source: English Laboratory | Thinking and Dreaming in English [bctt tweet=”While you are drifting off to sleep, tell yourself ‘tonight I will dream in English.’ When you wake up in the morning, the first thing you should do is write Read More …
Click on the image to view the video and see how Peggy helps students master the pronunciation of initial and final R sounds in English. [bctt tweet=”Must-See Teacher Training Video for English Pronunciation Challenge.” via=”no”]
This is how one can learn to be an expert teacher…invest your time at the start of your career in learning how to do something really well. Focus on it. Get good at it. Then get even better at Read More …
Hi All, I ‘m very excited to announce that I’ve uploaded Part 1 of the AMERICAN ENGLISH FOR JAPANESE SPEAKERS, A GUIDE TO TEACHING PRONUNCIATION. Part 1 covers how to teach Vowels and Consonants more effectively, so that everything else–stress, Read More …
I believe that teaching is an art, and I’ve strived my whole life to perfect my craft, which now is teaching pronunciation. It’s not perfection yet, but I keep working and learning from every teaching experience. My e-guides are my attempt Read More …