WHACHATALKINBOUT A LOOK INTO TEACHING MEANINGFUL PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

WHACHATALKIN’BOUT? A LOOK INTO TEACHING MEANINGFUL PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE Danny Tan dtan 911@gmail. com

WHAT’RE WE DOING? IMPORTANT STUFF FUN STUFF • DEFINITIONS • PERCEPTION ACTIVITIES • TEACHING INTEGRATED PRONUNCIATION STRATEGIES (TIPS) • PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES • PROGRAMMING • BRINGING EVERYTHING TOGETHER

SOME DEFINITIONS • SEGMENTAL • SMALLEST UNIT OF SOUND • SUPRA-SEGMENTAL • VOCAL EFFECT THAT EXTENDS OVER MORE THAN ONE UNIT OF SOUND (SEGMENTAL) • THOUGHT GROUPS • CONNECTED SPEECH • STRESS SYLLABLES/ SENTENCE STRESS • INTONATION ETC.

THE INTEGRATED APPROACH • PRACTICES AND USES SEGMENTALS IN CONTEXT • FOSTERS AWARENESS OF THE RULES AND EXCEPTIONS • NURTURES LEARNER AUTO-CORRECTION • ACCUMULATES AND SCAFFOLDS LEARNED ITEMS • CELEBRATES OWNERSHIP AND LANGUAGE SUCCESSES • CREATES AN ACCOUNTABLE AND MEASURABLE SYSTEM FOR FAIR EVALUATION

PROGRAMMING • IN ITS OWN COURSE • STARTS WITH A NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTS COMMON ERRORS • BALANCES A SYSTEM OF SEGMENTALS AND SUPRASEGMENTALS • INTEGRATED SKILLS • REQUIRES EXPLICIT TEACHING • RELATES THE STRATEGIES BACK TO THE TEXTS OR AUDIO FILES IN THE COURSE

LET’S EXPLORE! Focus Segmental Perception activities 1) Songs 2) Minimal pair discrimination: pairs, groups, and authentic resource Production activities 1) Minimal pair discrimination 2) Production tasks: Bingo, Tongue twisters Bi-labials and labio-dentals: /p/ and /f/, /v/ and /b/

TRY THESE: • POKER FACE: HANDOUT PAGE 1 • SCREEN ACTIVITY: HANDOUT PAGE 2 -3, PART 1 • MORE YOUNG PEOPLE PLANT THEMSELVES IN FARMING: HANDOUT PAGE 4 • STUDENT SCREENS: HANDOUT PAGE 3, PART 2 • TONGUE TWISTERS: HANDOUT PAGE 8 • BINGO: HANDOUT PAGES 9 -10

THEN… Suprasegmental Focus 1) Thought groups OR 2) Connected Speech Rules 1) How to divide thought groups OR 2) Different types of linking, reduction, and elision Perception 1) Hearing the pauses and understanding the message OR 2) Hearing the meaning words as they blends with function and other meaning words; identifying elided sounds Worksheet Off-line Online (voicethread) Production

TRY THESE: • THOUGHT GROUPS- MORE YOUNG PEOPLE PLANT THEMSELVES IN FARMING: HANDOUT PAGE 6 • CONNECTED SPEECH- MORE YOUNG PEOPLE PLANT THEMSELVES IN FARMING: HANDOUT PAGES 7 -8

ALTOGETHER Section 1: Segmental Bi-labials and labio-dentals /p/, /f/, /v/, and /b/ Perception and Production activities Show students HOW to autocorrect Integration Use the same source to link or pull together other TAUGHT parts of pronunciation Model HOW language sounds together Perception and Production activities Section 2: Suprasegmental Thought Groups OR Connected Speech

ONLINE ALTERNATIVE EXERCISES VIDEOS- LIP-SYNCING: • MCGURK EFFECT • HTTPS: //WWW. DROPBOX. COM/S/O 5 GQUG 6 GR 5 TU 1 VG/ MCGURK. MP 4? DL=0 • JACK • HTTPS: //WWW. DROPBOX. COM/S/38 PYWVR 5 HAYBDKX/Y ESOOK. MP 4? DL=0 • SHERRY • HTTPS: //WWW. DROPBOX. COM/S/9 PU 4 RCXALEYPB 2 T/SH ERRY%20%27%27 THE%20 SHOW%27%27. MOV? DL=0

SEGMENTAL PRACTICE: • HTTPS: //VOICETHREAD. COM/SHARE/5162354/ LIPSYNCH: • HTTPS: //VOICETHREAD. COM/SHARE/5694043/ GO TO: VOICETHREAD. COM • USERNAME: DTAN@YORKU. CA • PASSWORD: TESL 15

• HARUNA AND YESOOK (BEGINNER) HTTP: //GOANIMATE. COM/VIDEOS/0 ISNKFT 4 PJ_W? UTM_SOURCE =LINKSHARE&UTM_MEDIUM=LINKSHARE&UTM_CAMPAIGN=USE RCONTENT • HARRY AND JEREMY (ADVANCED) HTTP: //GOANIMATE. COM/VIDEOS/0 NZNOVVCPMM? UTM_SOURCE=LINKSHARE&UTM_MEDIUM=LINKSHARE &UTM_CAMPAIGN=USERCONTENT

MARKING THEM FAIRLY • ASSESS ONLY WHAT IS TAUGHT • EVALUATE ONLY WHAT IS LEARNED

RUBRICS

PEER EVALUATION

IMPLICATIONS • SUSTAINS LANGUAGE LEARNING • SCAFFOLDING • PRESENTS OBJECTIVES IN A CLEAR AND ORGANIZED MANNER • BUILDS UPON PREVIOUS LESSONS • SYNTHESIZES THE OLD AND NEW INFORMATION • ALLOWS FOR ACCOUNTABLE AND TRANSPARENT EVALUATION