Acquiring English pronunciation might seem like a clear-cut endeavor for the uninitiated: learners get exposed to enough authentic English and, presto, their speech becomes native-like. If only it were that simple. Teaching learners to sound more natural and native necessitates the deployment of a gamut of techniques much more complex than merely the supply of massive exposure. If you break down English pronunciation into three teachable categories—stress, rhythm, and intonat

Acquiring English pronunciation might seem like a clear-cut endeavor for the uninitiated: learners get exposed to enough authentic English and, presto, their speech becomes native-like. If only it were that simple. Teaching learners to sound more natural and native necessitates the deployment of a gamut of techniques much more complex than merely the supply of massive exposure. If you break down English pronunciation into three teachable categories—stress, rhythm, and intonat

Acquiring English pronunciation might seem like a clear-cut endeavor for the uninitiated: learners get exposed to enough authentic English and, presto, their speech becomes native-like. If only it were that simple. Teaching learners to sound more natural and native necessitates the deployment of a gamut of techniques much more complex than merely the supply of massive exposure. If you break down English pronunciation into three teachable categories—stress, rhythm, and intonat

Shooting stars are meant to go places that average men can only dream of. That’s why something as light as a wish makes for their only suitable travel companion. Today our eyes are trained on a shooting star of sorts, our “star student” Lily. Introduced to us three months shy of her third birthday and now a mere four years and nine months old, she’s reading English at a first-grade level, writing sentences complete with all necessary articles and accurate verb conjugations, s

As a language teacher, there are all sorts of things you can do, unwittingly or otherwise, to stifle your students’ learning process. One of the easiest ones to prevent is beginning a lesson without drawing students’ attention into the lesson in a novel and relevant way. Language teachers who neglect this ultimately creative step in lesson planning are brewing a bland lesson come delivery day. The more thematically and contextually relevant the beginning is the more engaging