Public plenary talk – Mark Hancock: Doing things with sounds: practical pronunciation activities for English Language Teaching (ELT) classrooms

In this talk, we’ll be looking at individual sounds and things we and our students can do with them. These will include:
Experimenting: simple classroom techniques to make students aware of sound articulation
Imagining: imagery and movements to show students how sounds are produced
Representing: using phonemic symbols to represent sounds
Exploring: using a chart to explore the sound systems
Playing: using word play to help students notice and practice sounds
Communicating: using tasks which require students to understand and produce sounds