Pronunciation Science
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We have organised the articles below into four categories:
- Theory
- Teaching
- Articulatory Settings
- Stress & Reduction
Some articles appear in more than one.
We have the permission of living authors to make their articles available, and permission from the family of the late J.C. Catford for his articles.
Articles about how children learn to pronounce can be found on Piers Messum's website. Articles about Gattegno's model of learning and about teaching English by the Silent Way can be found on Roslyn Young's website and at Silent Way Online.
Theory
L2 pronunciation: Seven learning/teaching paradigms found in instructed learning
Teaching students to pronounce English: a motor skill approach in the classroom
Teaching the underlying systems of English pronunciation
Why we should use a chart and a pointer
How we learn to pronounce: (1) Young children
Teaching English pronunciation in an intensive Silent Way course
Training for the unpredictable
Gattegno's Legacy
Silent Way
Teaching pronunciation without using imitation: why and how
Glasgow PCE: Pronunciation masterclass
Non-imitative ways of teaching pronunciation
Fielded Discussion: Non-imitative ways of teaching pronunciation
What if children don't learn to pronounce by imitation? How should we teach older learners?
Non-imitative ways of teaching pronunciation - short report
Autonomy, as soon as possible
Learning and teaching vowels
Phonetics and the Teaching of Pronunciation: A Systemic Description of English Phonology
The Silent Way
The Push Toward Communication
Teaching
Pointing on charts is a third way of working in the pronunciation classroom
Uncommitted materials: support for spontaneous interaction in class
Teaching the underlying systems of English pronunciation
Why we should use a chart and a pointer
How to use a chart and a pointer
Other aspects of using a chart and a pointer
Teaching English pronunciation in an intensive Silent Way course
Two pronunciation lessons
Non-imitative ways of teaching pronunciation
Teaching pronunciation effectively
Cuisenaire rods in the Silent Way classroom
Articulatory settings
Bringing the English Articulatory Setting into the classroom: (1) the tongue
Teaching the basis of articulation
Understanding and teaching the English articulatory setting
Is your tongue right?
A new look at a cause of foreign accent
Articulatory settings
Stress & Reduction in English
Teaching schwa: using intentional 'stuttering' on consonants to improve English pronunciation
Grounding stress in expiratory activity
'Rest' and 'Open Transition' in a Systemic Phonology of English