This volume addresses issues related to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching practices as well as ESP teacher education as they arise in today's constantly changing and developing world. "ESP Teaching and Teacher Education: Current Theories and Practices?," supported by the Language Centre of the Cyprus University of Technology,…

Rationales and approaches for teaching pronunciation in the intermediate foreign language classroom are discussed. Pronunciation should be taught regularly and overtly because perfecting pronunciation is an essential part of learning to communicate, and because intermediate students have enough vocabulary to generalize pronunciation rules to new…

Suggests a long-term approach to spelling that uses pronunciation symbols and involves the cooperation of different teachers the students will have at one school. System involves writing words on cards under symbols for a certain sound. (Author/BK)

Describes method for teaching conversational language by seeking to improve pronunciation, stressing the use of the target language during class meetings, presenting useful vocabulary, exposing students to certain customs, and instilling in them the confidence to use language skills. (BK)

Presents some classroom games that can be used for review purposes in helping students to memorize vocabulary items. The games are divided into two major categories, one which is intended for help in reviewing characters, and one which is intended to help in reviewing vocabulary and pronunciation. Each game is described. (PJM)

This paper outlines the ongoing construction of a speech corpus for use by applied linguists and advanced EFL/ESL students. In the first part, sections 1-4, the need for improvements in the teaching of listening skills and pronunciation practice for EFL/ESL students is noted. It is argued that the use of authentic native-to-native speech is…

Presents a variety of songs in which songs and slides can be used in a multinational classroom, providing pronunciation practice and a basis for free conversation and discourse, thus improving fluency. Visual and audio cues are presented simultaneously and in sequence, thus varying the presentation. Technical aspects are also discussed. (PJM)

At the request of beginning English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students and their teachers, pronunciation problems of Spanish and Vietnamese speaking learners were identified and prioritized by ESL teaching staff. Under the direction of the project director, resources to help teachers aid their students in addressing these problems were identified…

Methods designed to effectively teach pronunciation to university level nonnative speakers of English are described. Following a historical overview of educators' attitudes toward the relative importance of teaching pronunciation, teaching techniques that have been used in the past are surveyed. The relevance of the communicative approach is…

Provides a set of priorities and learning activities for a short-term English as a second language pronunciation course. These include: stress/unstress, major sentence stress, intonation, and linking and pausing. (CB)

The paper describes a diagnostic teaching procedure for use with children who have persistent /r/ errors. Rationale for the procedure includes a two-category typology of children with persistent /r/ errors and an analysis of articulatory gestures associated with a child's attempts to say /r/ correctly. (PHR)

Problems arising from using ESL materials which rely heavily on contractions (orthographic phenomena) to present blendings (phonological phenomena) are identified. Discussion of the contractions of be, have, not, the modals, and several blending patterns will help teachers exploit orthographic clues in teaching pronounciation. (PMJ)

Successful pronunciation of English as a second language can be influenced by the instructor's use of self-correcting and self-monitoring techniques which involve student motivation, adequate explanations, practice, and feedback. (CB)

Ways in which pronunciation of English as a second language can be taught through listening are presented, involving such activities as: identification tasks; minimal pair sentence tasks; inference, word counting, and dictation tasks; and stress and intonation tasks. (CB)

The communicative approach used in the teaching of second languages is also effective in teaching pronunciation of English as a second language. Communicative principles and activities in the areas of consonants and vowels, contractions, recued expressions and linking, suprasegmentals, and monitoring are discussed. (CB)