This is a follow-on page related to my blog ‘Listening Cherry 08’ here. I was doing this task, without looking at the answer key, and I could not do no. 6 (see image below), which required me to listen to a speech unit which contained nine syllables going at 5.0 syllables per second, and fill […]
This page contains Flash movies. 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, go here. The extract is taken from Chapter 7 of the American Canadian version of Streaming Speech. If you were asked to explain the meaning of […]
This page contains Flash movies. 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, go here. Students often ask advice about the correct way to say a sentence. Consider this one: ‘I read in a newspaper this morning that he […]
Dorah is from South Africa, her first language is Sotho. She is speaking to Sheila about a traditional wedding in her village in South Africa. The extract is taken from some experimental listening materials I am working on with Sheila Thorn of The Listening Business. D: They would come in the morning and then there […]
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, go here. Dorota is a university lecturer, working in England. Click the speaker icon to hear all of the extract. Click on each line […]
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, go here. Caroline is a university researcher, working in England. Click the speaker icon to hear all of the extract. Click on each line […]
Following on from the previous post, on Fred Gordon’s talk at IATEFL 2018 (he told us how to manage feelings in the listening classroom) I thought I’d show you a section of A Syllabus for Listening – Decoding which deals with this. The extract is from Chapter 19 Learner education and teacher-mindset. The chapter suggests ways in […]
Corrections/Errata Downloadable Word Document Click here to download a Microsoft Word document listing some errors and corrections. Two important corrections Reference list page 240 – Despite her major influence on this book, and seven in-text references, I failed to include Linda Shockey’s ground-breaking book of 2003 in the reference list. Mea culpa. Addition to page 240 […]
Another great thing about using AudioNotetaker is that it makes it easy to navigate around long sound files of spontaneous speech. Recordings of spontaneous speech are problematic: they typically contain multiple things of interest going on at the same time (speed, accent, reduction, dialect words, context dependent references) all of which compete for attention, and […]
It is now possible to integrate images, text and sound (audio chunks) together in one view, on one device, where the audio is as visible, navigable, and editable as the accompanying text. This is a very important development for the teaching and studying of speech: the sound substance has a visible presence, it has the […]
Click on the image to get a pdf of my presentation at PronSIG Brighton, 8th October 2016. Teaching presentation skills: Some of my postgraduate students (Electronic and Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering) had a problem with monotonous delivery of carefully prepared speech. I devised materials using graphics, text, and sound chunks from Martin Hewings’s Cambridge […]
Arizio Sweeting, writing in English Australia Journal, gives an outline of the contents of the book and says Richard Cauldwell’s … Phonology for Listening sheds light on the intricate relationship between listening and pronunciation … Whilst the book will interest teachers with an enthusiasm for pronunciation, its main audience is the listening skills teacher. … […]
In the previous post, I expressed the wish that it would be nice if gap-fill exercises involved explicit exploration and discussion of the soundshapes of the words which fit in the gap. So let’s do that now. In this case, we had this extract with the underlined words gapped out: And the words be able […]
Speak Out – Walker – Speech in Action
Robin Walker is the author of Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca (Oxford University Press, 2010), and is the outgoing editor (actually, now outgone) of IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group’s newsletter, SPEAK OUT!. You can read the full review here. My favourite paragraphs in the review are the last two complete paragraphs […]