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Pronunciation Insights – Aunt, adult, pajamas: Why can’t we agree how to pronounce common words?
QUOTE Aunt, adult, pajamas: Why can’t we agree how to pronounce common words? Call it the problem of toilet-paper-roll words By James Harbeck | February 10, 2014 How do you pronounce each of the following words? And is there another correct way to pronounce them? adult, address, almond, amen, arctic, aunt, banal, Caribbean, diabetes, either, envelope, harassment, herb, […]
In: Accents, Pronunciation Differences
What is Study-English-Online.Net?
In: Accents, Collaborative Learning, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, groupwork, Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, NOTES, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills, Testing and Assessment, TEYL, Uncategorized, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design, Who is Who in ELT
Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy
Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy 1. Cognitive Behaviourism 2. Constructivism 3. Connectivism
In: Accents, Collaborative Learning, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, groupwork, Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills, Testing and Assessment, TEYL, Uncategorized, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design, Who is Who in ELT · Tagged with: behaviourism, cognitivism, connectivism, constructivism, theories
Bilingualism: Facts & Stats
Source: The Bilingual Family: A Handbook For Parents by Edith Harding & Philip Riley, 1999, CUP. Over half of the world’s population is bilingual. This fact is usually surprising to many Europeans, who are under the impression that living with two or more languages is exceptional. (p. 27) What matters and what doesn’t in second […]
In: Accents, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, Learning Language Teaching, Statistics · Tagged with: adult learners, age, bilingualism, motivation, pronunciation
A Super-Duper Book on Accents & L1 Dependent Mistakes
I came across this book quite by chance. The title of the book – Learner English by M- Swan & B. Smith – has little to do with the contents at first sight (I did not expect to find detailed analyses of different languages in it as well as pragmatic lists of difficulties that learners […]
In: Accents, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design
What a mix!
I am teaching elementaries this year – this is very unlike me for I find this level somewhat tedious to teach. To make matters worse, instead of two nationalities, I’ve got four – it is a real challenge, for I do understand what sort of problems Russians and Estonians might encounter in terms vocabulary, grammar or pronunciation, […]
In: Accents, Learning Language Teaching, Observations · Tagged with: beginners, elementary, group dynamics, intonation, mixed-ability, pronunciation