Gifu JALT:

Methods to Conquer Pronunciation Difficulties

Date: Saturday, March 11th, 2006 Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Speaker: Victoria Taylor, ECC Foreign Language Institute

Description:
In this interactive presentation, Ms. Taylor will demonstrate an outline for a 5-week course consisting of 10 separate lessons focusing on common pronunciation errors by Japanese speakers of English. Taken as a course, there is an initial and final test to measure validity. Each lesson includes a minimal pair or 2 - 3 similar sounds. The lessons can be taught as a pronunciation course or individually to target specific errors. Each lesson focuses firstly on an individual sound, a similar one, then moves on to minimal pairs practice. The emphasis is on mouth position and repetition without boredom. Self-discovery exercises will augment the presentation, so participants will be encouraged to develop more ideas for drilling sounds without sending our students to sleep.

The techniques will at the very least be useful for all teachers. Simple and above all, these lessons are fun and suitable for students of all ages. Credit for the 5-week course goes to Chris Weaver. The course can be done with or without the books Pronunciation Pairs and Pronunciation Games.

Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Gifu JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1,000

Venue: Heartful Square (southeast section of Gifu JR Station), Gifu City, Gifu-ken

Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

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