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Current Trends in English Pronunciation Teaching Websites

Current Trends in English Pronunciation Teaching Websites. Nadège Neta Northern Arizona University. Introduction. Introduction Current trends Trend #1: Explicit illustration of sound production Trend #2: Minimal pairs 3 websites and their classroom applications What’s missing ?

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Current Trends in English Pronunciation Teaching Websites

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  1. Current Trends in English Pronunciation Teaching Websites NadègeNeta Northern Arizona University

  2. Introduction • Introduction • Current trends • Trend #1: Explicit illustration of sound production • Trend #2: Minimal pairs • 3 websites and their classroom applications • What’s missing? • Create supplementary material!

  3. Your personal experience • Do you know any ESL/EFL pronunciation website? • How have you used them in your classroom?

  4. Current Trends • See synthesis table Trend #1: Explicit illustrations of sound production Trend #2: Minimal pair drilling exercises

  5. Trend 1: Explicit illustration of sound production • Images from Rachel’s English

  6. Trend 1: Explicit illustration of sound production • Video clip from Rachel’s English

  7. Trend 1: Explicit illustration of sound production Beneficial if: • focuses on jaws and lips • shows tongue movement • includes manner & place of articulation (Celce-Murcia et. Al, 2010)

  8. Trend 2: Minimal pair exercises (listen & repeat)

  9. Trend 2: Minimal pair exercises • sheeporship.com: http://www.shiporsheep.com/page1.html • manythings.org http://www.manythings.org/mp/m30.html

  10. Trend 2: Minimal pair exercises In all the websites! • Popular: learners respond to their perceived needs (Derwing & Rossiter, 2002) • But, do not take into account functional load & intelligibility principle (Levis & Cortes, 2008) • Not contextualized (Celce Murcia et al., 2010)

  11. Importance of Context

  12. What’s missing? • Balance between segmentals & suprasegmentals • Segmentals: individual sounds • Suprasegmentals: intonation, pitch, linking, stress • Feedback (Neri, CucciariniStrik, & Boves, 2002) input output feedback

  13. A quick look at 3 websites • Rachel’s English http://www.rachelsenglish.com/ • LiveMocha http://livemocha.com/ • Pronuncian http://pronuncian.com/

  14. Rachel’s English: Applications • Assign specific sound lessons • Practice: Imitation exercises • Pronunciation lessons in context

  15. Rachel’s English: Imitation Exercise

  16. Rachel’s English: Pronunciation in Context

  17. Live Mocha: Applications • Follow your students’ progress • Create a community of learners • Connect with other languages & cultures • Learners help each other

  18. Live Mocha: learners help each other

  19. Pronuncian: Applications • Assign specific sound lessons • Resource to create lessons • Listen to free Podcasts (+ transcript)

  20. Your impressions?

  21. Develop supplementary material • http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13758009/az-tesol-presentation • Personalized material • Focus on specific features • Feedback possible • Contextualized pronunciation • Communicative setting • Use a movie-making website in your classroom!

  22. Xtranormalhttp://www.xtranormal.com/

  23. Xtranormal Tutorial • Tutorial: xtranormal_tutorial_screencast.wmv

  24. Uses in the language classroom: • Record lectures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH31hbUyLMY&feature=related • Simulate social encounters • Recreate historical scenes: http://www.xtranormal.com/historic_figurez • Interview famous people: http://www.xtranormal.com/futbol • Lead political debates: http://www.xtranormal.com/fmprez_showpak • Direct a fiction movie

  25. Endless opportunities Develop creativity • Work on pragmatics • Work on accuracy Record your lectures • Work on writing skills Pair Task Individual Task • Work on fluency

  26. 3 versions

  27. My experience with Xtranormal • NAU Program in Intensive English • Level 1 students (beginners) • 1 class session • Free: basic version • Handouts

  28. Questions?

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