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I'm wondering you taught students the pattern "before" they discovered something "weird" or you gave prosodic instruction once students had confusion.

Prosody here means intonation, rhyme, connected speech, etc. Well I don't see why you can't teach that in the beginning, as I said above. I'm sorry for my unclear statement in the first posting. Actually, I don't contend that prosody should be avoided. What I'm wondering is teaching it in an explic...

Prosody here means intonation, rhyme, connected speech, etc.

Many studies showed the important place of prosody in language communication for the reason that misunderstanding would occur when speakers are lack of suprasegmental knowledge. However, most of language teaching focuses on segmental features first, especially the instruction for beginners, and then...

I consider that creating a section of grouping words by topic would be beneficial for learner's memorization. Here are two suggestions for the site. One is that giving some sentences for each word would make learners understand better of the usage or context of a word. The other is the video clip of...

I'm afraid there is no best way for using Podcast in language teaching. The effect of Podcast facilitates student's learning depends on the consistency of teacher's utilization and instructional goal. That is, ways of using Podcast vary according to teaching objectives. As for listening practice, te...

I'm wondering whether you could provide much information about your target students and the orientation of on-line course. That would be helpful for narrowing down the focus of discussion. As for the instructional model, you could emply both synchronous and asychronous compatibly. The effects of the...