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ABC KID
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 Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject: Teaching pronunication silently...Good idea or just strange? |
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One of my co-teachers has a method for teaching pronunciation, which I haven't come across and didn't learn when I did my TESOL course years ago...
For teaching pronunciation work esp. Listen and Repeat, he asks the students to look at me as I just mouth the words the first time. They then have to mouth the words. This then progresses on to actually saying the words out loud.
I have never encountered this before. Is this particular co-teacher just in his own little world or is this a recognized method? What do others think of it? Given a choice would you ever do it in your classroom? |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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that's frightening...  my co-teacher tried to get me to do the exact same thing for our open class, and i told her right away it wasn't a good way to teach English.
but she insisted, so we tried it a few times before to practice with the kids. they really didn't get it and most of the kids were getting the answers wrong.
finally my main co-teacher, with the most experience of us all, told her no. end of story. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching pronunication silently...Good idea or just stra |
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| ABC KID wrote: |
One of my co-teachers has a method for teaching pronunciation, which I haven't come across and didn't learn when I did my TESOL course years ago...
For teaching pronunciation work esp. Listen and Repeat, he asks the students to look at me as I just mouth the words the first time. They then have to mouth the words. This then progresses on to actually saying the words out loud.
I have never encountered this before. Is this particular co-teacher just in his own little world or is this a recognized method? What do others think of it? Given a choice would you ever do it in your classroom? |
lol. It's a theoretical teaching method. The theory is that part of people's understanding of speech is linked to visual cues (lipreading basically) so seeing the word spoken will help make additional connections in the brain, which will help in recognition and recall of the word later on.
Does it work? Damned if I know!  Okay, I think it does work. Sometimes. A little. Maybe not enough to bother with though. I KNOW I use lipreading all the time to figure out other people's mumbling, but I can't consciously do it. I wouldn't be able to watch you mouth something in English and repeat it back, and English is my first language.
Can you tell if the kids are moving their mouths the right way? Probably not, right?  |
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adeline
Joined: 19 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| i don't see how this could possibly work, reading lips takes a lot of practice. showing them where their tounge and teeth should be is one thing, but just mouthing the words? i don't think so. |
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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| nomad-ish wrote: |
that's frightening... my co-teacher tried to get me to do the exact same thing for our open class, and i told her right away it wasn't a good way to teach English.
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Bizarrely, it also suddenly became a priority when we had an open class too. What's that all about??? |
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