Below are listed teacher-training and research articles which provide the underpinnings for Speechinaction’s commerical publications. Many of the articles published since 1999 are available online – just click the link. All the articles are by Richard Cauldwell, unless otherwise mentioned. 2016 ELF one two and three. Speech in Action Working Paper, September 2016. DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.27532.51849. […]
This page contains a Flash movie. If you are viewing this page in Safari, and cannot see the movies, you need to change your preferences. For instructions on changing your preferences for Safari, go here, and for Chrome, go here. Notation The notation of DI began (in the 1970s) as a type-writer friendly notation using […]
Overview Discourse Intonation is an approach to the teaching and analysis of everyday speech. It consists of four components: a theory, a set of categories & realisations, a notation, and transcription practice. Discourse Intonation was developed at The University of Birmingham (UK) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The originator of this approach was […]
This page contains a Flash movie. If you are viewing this page in Safari, and cannot see the movies, you need to change your preferences. For instructions on changing your preferences for Safari, go here, and for Chrome, go here. Theory & the tone unit DI views intonation as discoursal (not grammatical, not attitudinal) in […]
I offer workshops for teachers to improve the teaching of listening. The focus is on decoding, and on making the most of the recordings contained in textbooks. The workshops range from one hour to a week in length. You can see me giving a session here. Forthcoming workshops and talks Electronic Village Online: Listening – Decoding […]
Listening Cherries is a blog where I talk about listening issues – from classroom activities to academic research. Listening Cherry no. 2 features a productive disagreement about a transcription. A colleague visited me a short while ago, and we discussed a TED talk that I was working on. The TED talk is by Tom Wujec. […]
A Syllabus for Listening: Decoding is a finalist in the Teacher Resources category of the British Council’s ELTONs awards 2019 for innovations in English Language Teaching. More here. . A Syllabus for Listening: Decoding is available as both a printed book and as an eBook. You can get the print copy either from Amazon here or […]
Listening Cherries is a blog where I talk about listening issues – from classroom activities to academic research. Listening Cherry no. 7 raves about a recent publication from Mark Hancock and Annie McDonald. There is so much to like and admire about Authentic Listening Resource Pack, the latest offering from Mark Hancock and Annie McDonald. […]
Image from here. I believe that 23rd May (next Monday!) is the due date for the publication of the new EPUB 3.0 standard for electronic publications (books read on mobile devices). I don’t speak to many people ‘in the know’ about it, but two that I do are both associated with Firsty Group who seem […]
The Botanic metaphor of the Greenhouse the Garden and the Jungle has proved popular with teachers and students. Here is a brief description, with an explanation about how the metaphor can be used in the classroom. In the Greenhouse, words have soundshapes which are treated as if they are isolated plants – each one separate, […]
Jungle Listening – Survival Tips for Fast Speech – Free materials Jungle Listening is a set of ten units which aim to make students (B1 upwards) familiar and comfortable with the unruliness and messiness of fast speech. They have been piloted in France, Thailand and Poland. Each of the ten activities focuses on a key […]
Jungle Listening – Survival Tips for Fast Speech – Free materials Jungle Listening is a set of ten units which aim to make students (B1 upwards) familiar and comfortable with the unruliness and messiness of fast speech. They have been piloted in France, Thailand and Poland. Each of the ten activities focuses on a key […]
Training
CPD workshops for teachers I used to offer workshops for teachers to improve the teaching of listening. The focus was on decoding, and on making the most of the recordings contained in textbooks. The workshops ranged from one hour to a week in length. You can see me giving a session here. And there is […]