TH Sounds in English – What Does the Future Hold?
TH Sounds in English – What Does the Future Hold? The TH-sounds /θ/ and /ð/ (dental fricatives) can be challenging for English language learners to master if their native language […]
The IPA Vowel Chart and Teaching Pronunciation
The IPA Vowel Chart and Teaching Pronunciation One spring afternoon in 2001, I was ten steps away from entering my Adult ESL class when a little idea popped into my […]
Lexical Resource – IELTS Speaking
Lexical Resource IELTS Speaking Hi everyone, welcome to the third installment of our analysis of IELTS speaking grading criteria. In my last article, we looked Fluency and Coherence. If you haven’t […]
Case Study: The AI Solution to South Korea’s Declining English Proficiency
Case Study: The AI Solution to South Korea’s Declining English Proficiency My Speaking Score’s second biggest market outside of the US is South Korea. The peninsula’s slipping ranks in English […]
John Healy’s New Company Helps Teachers Beat TOEFL Speaking
Today’s guest is John Healy. I chat to John about his career in IT prior to begging to teach English. We talk also about his time in Korea and his […]
TOEFL Teacher: Why Your Students Are Not Getting Higher Scores
TOEFL Teacher: Why Your Students Are Not Getting Higher Scores Whatever a student’s ability, if they are unfamiliar with the strategies required to perform well at a particular examination, they […]
Connected Speech: What Happens During Ordinary, Spontaneous Speech?
“A word is not just the sum of its individual sounds; just as connected speech is not just the sum of its individual words.” (Underhill, 1994 p. 58) Why do […]