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How I Got Around Life Being A Bad Speller And My Goal To Fix It

by Neville Grundy

Aug 16, 2008 2873 Views

How I got around life being a bad speller and my Goal to fix it. This year I have a dream to become a good speller, I have been creating blogs and the spelling has driven me nuts. These blogs have motivated me to relearn the English language. Many people just do not try to do anything new or fix up their old bad habits and use many excuses.
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The American English Accent: The Voiced And Unvoiced

by Frank Gerace Ph.D

Aug 23, 2008 5102 Views

_notregistered/art_202_f4980d4a2f~.jpg The voiced and unvoiced consonants. In this section we will try to clarify the difference between the voiced consonants and the unvoiced consonants. If you want to master English pronunciation you have to able to distinguish between these two types of consonants.
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Teaching Efl Pronunciation: Why, What and How?

by Dr. M. Maniruzzaman

Aug 23, 2008 3844 Views

_notregistered/art_207_84c5938303~.jpg Pronunciation is an integrated and integral part of second/foreign language learning since it directly affects learners’ communicative competence as well as performance to a substantial extent. Notwithstanding, the teaching of EFL pronunciation has received varied treatment from having no room in the synthetic syllabus and the grammar-translation method to being the cardinal focus in the situational syllabus and the audio-lingual method in which emphasis is put on the traditional notions of pronunciation, minimal pairs, drills and mini-conversations.
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Improving Spelling with Games

by Steve Hall

Sep 26, 2008 3259 Views

_notregistered/art_361_c8d866cc3b~.gif You got it! You can do just about any type of learning for a child or an individual learning a second language through the use of various computer games. You are sure to find something that will fit with their needs. You are also able to find a game that will keep them interested.
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To Learn to Read Your Child Has to Learn Phonics

by Peter Legrove

Oct 23, 2008 2964 Views

_notregistered/art_470_95095a6d9c~.jpg Learning phonics is time consuming but it is something your child has to do to be able to read properly. Phonics are the foundation of reading and without them your child will have problems when learning to read. On the internet and in the bookshops there are many ways to learn to read.
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On Teaching Pronunciation

by Miriam Lavi

Nov 9, 2008 6973 Views

_notregistered/art_553_516a8e5c62~.gif Many years ago, a presenter at an ESL conference I attended began his stimulating, and very memorable, presentation with a ten minute mini lesson in . . . Thai! The audience of ESL teachers, syllabus planners and curriculum designers was stunned, but the point was effectively made: Learning correct pronunciation and intonation in a foreign language is not as simple as ESL teachers seem to think!
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Pronunciation Problems: Japanese Students of English

by Brendan Dilk

Nov 26, 2008 4882 Views

A useful way for EFL teachers in Japan to help rid their students of that "katakana" pronunciation.
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English Pronunciation for the ESL Learner

by Lynn Bo

Nov 28, 2008 3680 Views

_notregistered/art_633_afff64d9f8~.jpg What is an accent? An accent is the carryover of sounds from the speaker’s original language to the second language. When we are infants we literally have the ability to speak any language in the world. We are all born with the necessary speech mechanisms and the capability to learn any language. We end up speaking the language that we do solely by reinforcement.
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Discovering Phonetics

by Veronica Makarova

Dec 5, 2008 7939 Views

_notregistered/art_655_b9bad7a071~.gif a detailed look at the methods of Phonetic teaching and learning.
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Why Sight Words Don\\\'t Work

by Bruce D. Price

Jan 14, 2009 3592 Views

_notregistered/art_778_45ba3d1743~.jpg I recently got a long, anguished letter from a couple with a five-year-old in kindergarten. The school’s curriculum was built around learning 76 Sight Words. The child was not making progress; the parents were miserable. They had decided they must homeschool their child.

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