The Center for Confident American English Communication

This is for all of you English pronunciation teachers who are looking for activities to teach pronunciation. One book that I’ve found very helpful is Beverly Beisbier’s Sounds Great. Each chapter ends with several fully developed activities for pair practice. These pair practice activities are excellent for getting your students to practice what they learned

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Nursery rhymes can be fun and effective way to teach American English pronunciation patterns. That’s because nursery rhymes can be used to model the syllable stress, sentence stress and intonation patterns of spoken English. The repetitive nature of rhymes can help adults learn the rhythm of the language that is so important for a natural sounding

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I know that many of the people who read my blog are teachers who want information on how to teach American English pronunciation. If you are a teacher I’m glad to have you as a reader! The Center for Applied Linguistics here in Washington, DC just came out with a guide or brief titled: Teaching Pronunciation

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This PDF document from Pearson Longman Publishers outlines the pronunciation concepts that teachers need to address when teaching English pronunciation classes. Some of these key features include: working on individual sounds or phonemes word stress (also called syllable stress) sentence stress & intonation teaching students to use phonemic scripts using minimal pair exercises Click here

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I know that many of my readers are people who teach American English Pronunciation. For my fellow teachers I want to you to know that I recently published a book review of an excellent book called Teaching American English Pronunciation, an easy to read primer on how to teach American English pronunciation. One of the

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