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OXFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION English Language Teachers’ Summer Seminar 2015 Week 1: 27 th – 31 st July Integrating pronunciation: the Cinderella of language skills Tutor: Adrian Underhill On this workshop you will: • try out new methods for developing your own pronunciation and that of your students. • extend your insight into HOW to make English sounds • locate the four physical ‘muscle buttons’ that free learners to discover new L2 sounds • learn how to integrate pronunciation into all of you class work This workshop will enable you to use pronunciation to transform language learning into a living, engaging, enjoyable and successful enterprise. You will learn how to use the Sound Foundations chart (you will receive a free copy) to integrate the pronunciation of sounds, words, phrases and connected speech into all of your lessons. You will practise a range of new techniques for helping learners to master new sounds and connect them into words and phrases. You will learn new ways of dealing with mistakes and with the problems your own leaners have with English pronunciation. At the same time you will explore the physicality of pronunciation. Only by sensing your muscles, by knowing from the inside how you make all the sounds in your own mouth, can you be fully versatile and fluent in the way you guide your students around this territory, helping to free them from the ‘grip’ of their mother tongue pronunciation. You will discover that pronunciation is much easier to work with and to conceptualise than you may previously have imagined. You will learn to integrate the pronunciation of sounds, words and connected speech into all aspects of your classroom work, while reviewing, practising and developing your own pronunciation as needed. Session 1 Monday Introducing the chart as a map of the pronunciation territory Teaching and learning the physicality of the sounds of English New teaching approaches and techniques for use with learners Session 2 Tuesday Connecting sounds into words and mastering word stress Linking pronunciation with listening, spelling and memory Techniques for exploiting the chart as the ‘pronunciation whiteboard’ Session 3 Wednesday Teaching and learning vocabulary using pronunciation as a memory hook Core activities for integrating pronunciation with the learning of new vocabulary Better correction, but also going beyond a ‘correction culture’ to a ‘success culture’ Session 4 Thursday Connecting words in the stream of speech. Rhythm, intonation and connected speech Core chart activities for developing fluency in connected speech Session 5 Friday Integrating this approach with your own course materials and personal teaching style Tips and tricks for using the chart to motivate your learners. Please note: This course schedule is intended to give an overview of the topics to be covered in each session; however, it may be liable to change at the tutor’s discretion. USEFUL READING Marks, Jonathan & Tim Bowen, 2012, The Book of Pronunciation, DELTA. Underhill, Adrian. 2005. Sound Foundations. Macmillan ELT. Underhill, Adrian 2011 SOUNDS: The Pronunciation App (both the Free version and Premium version, available from The App store and form iTunes store RELEVANT LINKS My pron blog: http://adrianpronchart.wordpress.com/ Youtube clips of some of my pronunciation teacher training sessions: http://www.youtube.com/macmillanelt

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY – DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION

English Language Teachers’ Summer Seminar 2015

Week 1: 27th

– 31st

July

Integrating pronunciation: the Cinderella of language skills

Tutor: Adrian Underhill

On this workshop you will:• try out new methods for developing your own pronunciation and that of your students.• extend your insight into HOW to make English sounds• locate the four physical ‘muscle buttons’ that free learners to discover new L2 sounds• learn how to integrate pronunciation into all of you class work

This workshop will enable you to use pronunciation to transform language learning into a living, engaging,enjoyable and successful enterprise. You will learn how to use the Sound Foundations chart (you will receive a freecopy) to integrate the pronunciation of sounds, words, phrases and connected speech into all of your lessons. Youwill practise a range of new techniques for helping learners to master new sounds and connect them into wordsand phrases. You will learn new ways of dealing with mistakes and with the problems your own leaners have withEnglish pronunciation.

At the same time you will explore the physicality of pronunciation. Only by sensing your muscles, by knowing fromthe inside how you make all the sounds in your own mouth, can you be fully versatile and fluent in the way youguide your students around this territory, helping to free them from the ‘grip’ of their mother tongue pronunciation.You will discover that pronunciation is much easier to work with and to conceptualise than you may previously haveimagined.

You will learn to integrate the pronunciation of sounds, words and connected speech into all aspects of yourclassroom work, while reviewing, practising and developing your own pronunciation as needed.

Session 1Monday

Introducing the chart as a map of the pronunciation territory Teaching and learning the physicality of the sounds of English New teaching approaches and techniques for use with learners

Session 2Tuesday

Connecting sounds into words and mastering word stress Linking pronunciation with listening, spelling and memory Techniques for exploiting the chart as the ‘pronunciation whiteboard’

Session 3Wednesday

Teaching and learning vocabulary using pronunciation as a memory hook Core activities for integrating pronunciation with the learning of new vocabulary Better correction, but also going beyond a ‘correction culture’ to a ‘success culture’

Session 4Thursday

Connecting words in the stream of speech. Rhythm, intonation and connected speech Core chart activities for developing fluency in connected speech

Session 5Friday

Integrating this approach with your own course materials and personal teaching style Tips and tricks for using the chart to motivate your learners.

Please note: This course schedule is intended to give an overview of the topics to be covered in each session;however, it may be liable to change at the tutor’s discretion.

USEFUL READINGMarks, Jonathan & Tim Bowen, 2012, The Book of Pronunciation, DELTA.Underhill, Adrian. 2005. Sound Foundations. Macmillan ELT.Underhill, Adrian 2011 SOUNDS: The Pronunciation App (both the Free version and Premium version, availablefrom The App store and form iTunes store

RELEVANT LINKSMy pron blog:http://adrianpronchart.wordpress.com/

Youtube clips of some of my pronunciation teacher training sessions:http://www.youtube.com/macmillanelt

My series of 3 minute pronunciation videoshttp://www.macmillanenglish.com/pronunciation-skills/

Adrian UnderhillI am series editor of the Macmillan Books for Teachers and author of Sound Foundations: Learning and TeachingPronunciation, and its associated phonemic chart. My first book was the original Use your Dictionary, published byOUP in 1980. I was trainer and director of the International Teacher Training Institute at International House inHastings until 1999, since when I have worked as an independent ELT consultant with a focus on teacher training,professional and organisational development, and school leadership. I am a past president of IATEFL and havebeen principal tutor on the Oxford University ELT Summer Seminar since 2003.