Hi, Thank you both. I asked this because I thought the aswer to it would be pretty straightforward. But, as it turns out, it is slightly more complicated. Good information though. Why I want to know this? Partly because I find it interesting, but

Hello everybody. I'm pretty good at English let's say, the writing, the pronunciation, the reading, the listening aren't big problem to me. Okay, the listening and speaking, I do it but with efforts. The speaking it's the hardest

Hello, I wanted to know if anyone has a good minimal pairs worksheet. I had a great worksheet I used last year, before I went on a three month vacation, that included twelve minimal pairs all of words all on one sheet. I used this sheet

I am currently working on an undergraduate project focusing on the impact of accent training classes on students' perceptions of their own accents and identities. If you have a few minutes to spare, I would appreciate it if you could complete

I've noticed that the indefinite article "a" is often pronounced "ay" in speeches and on radio and TV. What's that about? Svatopluk Svatopluk, I don't think your post was clear enough to be sure of what you wanted

The English classes in East Asia traditionally have placed very little emphasis on listening and speaking skills. One consequence of this has been that these students take the TOEFL test and get a good score. Then they go to an American university

Hello, I work in a company that produces teaching materials for English teachers and students in schools in Turkey. Some ... know the correct pronunciation of all the words in a text, etc. Is this a problem for anyone out there? Yes, that's

Hello, I work in a company that produces teaching materials for English teachers and students in schools in Turkey. Some of the teachers who use our materials are native speakers, but the vast majority are Turks. I have a question for non-native

Is this what you're after? Maybe be too TEFL-ey/basic for your audience (sorry if you've thought of these already) - clean up our board: after a particularly messy lesson, work with students to organise the board into a set of clear notes

It seems to me that your students (two students?) had problems with pronunciation. Personally, I wouldn't expect a coursebook to teach pronunciation: it's too interactive to be learned from a tape. I'm assuming that the