Portal:Phonology/Features

1 General

1. Pronunciation: Teaching overview
2. Pronunciation: Listening exercises
3. Pronunciation: Production exercises
4. Pronunciation: Controlled activities
5. Pronunciation: Interactive activities
6. Improving your pronunciation
7. Common English pronunciation problems for Koreans

2 Practice materials

(including dialogues - especially good for contrastive stress and sentence stress)

• ["http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/Abbott and Costello.doc" Abbott & Costello's famous 'Who's on first?' skit]
• Monty Python 'Argument Clinic' sketch
• Coffee shop confusion (from Judy Gilbert's Clear Speech)
• Limericks
• Mr. Obvious: 'The critter' (from the Bob & Tom show)
• Various dialogues, especially for sentence stress & rhythm (some are actual dialogues from a corpus, some are fictional and humorous)
• Stupid people: an actual conversation between a stupid person and a couple of vendors - hilarious! (it happened at the Univ. of New Hampshire campus; the story was told by one of the vendors, and recorded by a linguistics professor at UNH and passed around among linguists; I got it from a pragmatics course)
• Jazz chants for practicing English rhythm, especially for younger learners
• A few tongue twisters
• other tongue twisters, HTML version

Also:

• Simple rhymes
• Poems, limericks, longer rhymes, etc.
• Dialogues and monologues
• Shorter readings
• Longer readings
• Jazz chants