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Customizing Pronunciation Practice with an E-Toolkit
Robert Bushong, [email protected] 26, 2015
Electronic Village, 49th Annual TESOL Convention & ExhibitToronto, Ontario, Canada
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Agenda
• Background on the importance of customizing pronunciation practice
• Three steps to customize pronunciation practice• Demonstration of the e-tool kit• Goals customized to the individual student• Assessment of progress that is also customized
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Assumptions
• Students are not always self-aware of pronunciation errors.
• Pronunciation errors vary among learners, even among students with the same L1.
• Speech patterns can be defossilized (Derwing & Munro, 2014).
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Variations of the Arabic Letter ج in Saudi Arabia
A simple map showing the major cities in Saudi Arabia.Created by Norman Einstein, February 10, 2006.Available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saudi_Arabia_map.png.
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Three Steps
• Administer voice-recorded diagnostics to help identify difficult phonemes
• Hold student-teacher conferences to create self-study plans
• Provide an e-toolkitto help students practice autonomously
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E-Toolkit
The following text contains hyperlinks.• Edmodo • Color Vowel Chart• Jennifer ESL Youtube Channel• Rachel’s English YouTube Channel• Shopping List Diagnostic• TESL-J Conversation Questions• Tongue Twisters
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Goals
• Intelligibility in the context of spontaneous speech
• Progress, not perfection
Assessment• Interviews eliciting spontaneous speech• Voice recordings based on course themes
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Suggested Readings
• Grant, L. (Ed.). (2014). Pronunciation myths: Applying second language research to classroom teaching. USA: University of Michigan Press.
• Swan, M., & Smith, B. (2001). Learner English: A teacher’s guide to interference and other problems (2nd). UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Taylor, K., & Thompson, S. (2013). Color vowel chart: A visual tool for teaching the sounds of English. Santa Fe, NM: English Language Training Solutions.