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In this episode, Matt reflects on how the recent remote ways of working may bring about professional development opportunities, Rob charts the work of Paul Pimsleur, and Matthew leads a discussion on pronunciation.
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Hi guys, quite surprised by your thoughts on pronunciation. While I do agree teaching context is the biggest factor and working in Japan is very different from working with students whose language uses the Roman script. Teaching Spanish speakers really brings pronunciation and phonology in general forward. If you don’t teach English phonology, they will lay Spanish phonology over English words. Word stress is also very important as many of the cognates have different stress. The classic example is students will say they have a comedy meeting, rather than a committee meeting. For me, pronunciation teaching is part of vocabulary teaching. To me they don’t know a word if they don’t know how it is pronounced because they won’t hear it when listening nor be understood when speaking.