Expert English Pronunciation, Accent Reduction & Fluency
I use Audacity just about every week, to record myself and to record my students. Audacity is available for free, it is open software designed by volunteers and given to the world. It shows sound as spectrograms; I use the Read More …
If you’ve scrolled through earlier blogposts, you may have run across my “teaching principles”—realizations I’ve come to, after decades of teaching ESL and EFL, that have made my teaching of pronunciation (and student learning of it) more effective, more efficient, Read More …
Just like Harvard gurus of business, Radical English teachers may espouse the notion of ‘disruptive innovation’. Watch this interview about a new take on innovation in the business world, and about planning future work from theories and principles. Do you Read More …
The third “principle” that I keep in mind, when I’m teaching pronunciation, is that speaking is unconscious and physical, so our solutions must address those two conditions. Analyzing what we’re doing and not doing (principle #1) is great, it feeds Read More …
Surprise is a great tool for teachers because it makes learners pay close attention. When we introduce an idea or method that is incongruous to our learners previous conceptions, or use a method or tool that is unfamiliar or Read More …
Patterns are everywhere and we humans are experts as recognizing them, and even creating them. Our brains love patterns. Whatever you’re teaching, vowels sounds, syllable stress, intonation, teach it as part of a pattern. But patterns, our great strength, Read More …
After years (and years) of teaching ESL and EFL, I have distilled my knowledge, skills, and experiences into guiding “principles” in a few areas of teaching, and happily, no longer have to search for materials or buy something a publisher Read More …
This is a link to the page where you’ll find a pdf of Judy B. Gilbert’s contribution to Speak Out! the SIG (special interest group) at the IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) conference of Read More …