The Center for Confident American English Communication

An article published today in USA Today reports that more people are taking lessons and classes on how to improve their American English pronunciation. Accent reduction can be controversial because one’s accent is part of their identity. We all know that there is nothing wrong with an accent because we all have one. However, for

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Are you a pronunciation teacher? Cambridge English Language Teaching offers some FREE downloadable books for teaching English pronunciation and listening skills. One of these free books is Judy Gilbert’s book: Teaching Pronunciation: Using the Prosody Pyramid. This is a great resource for teachers of American English pronunciation because it explains the importance of teaching students how

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Are you looking for ways to make your pronunciation teaching more interactive? Pronunciation Games is a resource and activity book that instructors can use to teach and practice English pronunciation concepts in their classrooms. Each unit consists of a pronunciation game that is designed to raise students awareness of key English pronunciation features. Concepts include

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One fun and effective way to learn the rhythm of spoken English is to sing songs. In my pronunciation classes last year I used this website called KaraokeParty to teach American English songs to the students and they found that this was very helpful way to practice phrasing, linking and vowel lengthening. To find the

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This week several of my students asked me if reduced speech was only appropriate in informal situations. I don’t believe that it is. Whenever people speak, they have a tendency to save energy by connecting sounds together. This connected or reduced speech is not necessarily sloppy or informal, it’s the way most Americans speak English

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I know that many people who read my blog are teachers who are looking for quality lessons and techniques they can use to teach American English pronunciation to their students. I am currently working on a resource page for you and it will be available soon. In the meantime, teachers who are serious about teaching

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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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Continuing the discussion on the International Phonetic Alphabet, I like this IPA chart from esl-lounge.com. The 44 phoneme symbols are large and easy to read. However, there is no audio. If you are an English pronunciation teacher or graduate student who needs to type IPA symbols into your documents check out Type IPA. This is

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The English Language Training Institute (ELTI) in Calcutta is working to correct the English pronunciation of 60 schoolteachers in their two-day workshops. One of the teachers had it right when he said: “We are habituated to speak in a certain way. We have to first unlearn what we know and then relearn the words afresh

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