Three ways to hand over pronunciation to your learners My presentation on pronunciation from the Innovate ELT 2017 Oxford House Barcelona Conference puts together all of my experience with trying to increase learners awareness, knowledge and use of pronunciation, in class and beyond.

1. Three ways to hand over
pronunciation to your
learners
Oana Samoila
Innovate ELT Conference 2017
5-6 May
Barcelona

2. Three ways to hand over
pronunciation to your
learners
Oana Samoila
Innovate ELT Conference 2017
5-6 May
Barcelona

3. Three steps to hand over
pronunciation to your
learners
Oana Samoila
Innovate ELT Conference 2017
5-6 May
Barcelona

4. Three
Raising learner awareness
Giving basic phonological
and phonetic insight
Using educational games
and technology in the
classroom
easy steps
more or less

5. Step 1 Raising Awareness
Why should learners
know about
pronunciation?
What do your learners
know about
pronunciation?
What do you want
them to know?

6. Why should learners know
about pronunciation?
Because it is not separate from all
the other systems
Because it can make a difference
Because they can do it
Because pronunciation is a key

7. What do your learners
know about pronunciation?

8. What do your learners
know about pronunciation?
It’s difficult (60%)
It uses alien symbols
(1 very creative student)
They should hear and produce
sounds they believe they can’t hear
or produce (83%)

9. What do you want them to
know?
Sound is produced by the same
organs, in much the same way in
almost all languages
almost all
IPA is not Incredibly Painful Alphabet
Pronunciation can be (tam tam tam ta…)
FUN

10. Step 2 Basic Sound Insight
How sounds
are produced
IPA
Meet Miss
Mia Sound

11. How sounds are produced
IPA

12. Focusing on minimal
pairs

13. March 2017
Pronunciation Workshop
IH Jesi-Ancona

14. Step 3Make it fun and easy to access
Using games
Using
technology
Using
consistency

15. Bingo Instructions:
- Decide which sounds are part of the bingo
- Ask SS to fill in their grid with those sounds
randomly, as they prefer
- Play bingo
- SS eliminate their sounds from left to right. They
have to go in order.
- The first student to finish his grid, wins. He or she
will conduct the next bingo game.
Time:
10-15’
- Option 1: Call out individual
sounds.
- Option 2: Mouth individual
sounds.
- Option 3: Call out words that
include those sounds

16. Try in class
and as
homework Sound
animation
On your
phone
Try in class,
on your
phone, always

17. Consistency

18. Thank you very
much
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