Pronunciation skills: glossary, bibliography & activities

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• Assimilation and elision (390k)

  

  This comprehensive article by Jonathan Marks explains the most common types of assimilation and elision, gives examples, and considers the significance of these two processes for learners and teachers.

• Pronunciation skills: bibliography

  

  A bibliography of sources for further study and classroom exercises.

• Pronunciation skills: destruction as creativity

  

  Focus on reading aloud and text chunking.

• Pronunciation skills: glossaries

  

  Glossaries of terminology for teaching: homophones, rhotic and rhythm.

• Pronunciation skills: how many syllables?

  

  Focus on pronouncing syllables in words.

• Pronunciation skills: how often?

  

  Focuses on teaching stress patterns in adverbial phrases expressing frequency.

• Pronunciation skills: sound and spelling

  

  Focus on establishing which words in a set are pronounced the same or differently.

• Pronunciation skills: 'that'll do'

  

  Focus on practising the pronunciation of the syllabic 'l'.

• Pronunciation skills: what is it called?

  

  Focus on pronouncing stress patterns in compound nouns.

• Pronunciation skills: who does what?

  

  Focus on pronouncing stress in compound nouns.