“Say Again?” An In-house, Online, Self-access Pronunciation Project for ESOL Students

Abstract

This collaborative project comprises the creation of free online pronunciation activities which are geared specifically for independent learning, although classroom use is also valuable. These are particularly suitable for pre-degree English Language students at Waikato Pathways College, but could be useful to any English Language learner. With teacher input for content creation, the recordings were done on site and the activities re-recorded to reflect input from continual feedback from students and teachers. This project is a work-in-progress.

Keywords

• Pronunciation
• podcast
• vodcast
• phoneme
• vowels
• diphthongs
• consonants
• connected speech
• Kiwi-isms
• NZ idioms
• motivation
• word and sentence stress
• eLearning
• mLearning