Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World

Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World

by Robin Walker and Gemma Archer
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 26/04/2024

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Into the Classroom is a series of short, practical guides that help teachers who work in the primary and secondary school setting to make sense of new teaching tools, techniques, and educational policy, with ideas for implementing them in the classroom. Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World provides teachers with strategies and practical pronunciation ideas to help students aiming for international intelligibility or a native speaker accent. Explains the importance of focusing on consonants, vowels and stress. Encourages the use of the students' first language as a starting point for teaching aspects of English pronunciation. Explores how technology can be used to aid pronunciation and also provide exposure to different accents. Provides practical classroom ideas focusing on specific pronunciation points, using a step-by-step approach. Stresses the vitally important role that pronunciation plays in communication and how this can be reflected in assessment.

ISBN:
9780194088992
9780194088992
Category:
Study & learning skills: general
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
26-04-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Robin Walker

Robin Walker, also known as The Black History Man, is one of the UK's most pre-eminent African scholars. Born in London Walker read economics at LSE before studying African World Studies under Dr Femi Biko and later Kenny Bakie.

Since 1992 Robin has been lecturing in adult education, universities and conferences on African World Studies, Egyptology and Black History. Robin has authored or coauthored 13 books, including classic titles such as Classical Splendour, Roots of Black History Sword, Seal and Koran, the best study there has ever been on the Songhai Empire of West Africa (Everyday life in a West African Empire).

Perhaps his most notable and critically acclaimed work is the title When We Ruled, which is hailed as the single most advanced historical synthesis on the history of Africa and its people to date. This established Walker as a leading authority on African studies in the English speaking world.

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