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Post by singingteacher » Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:50 pm

Hi, I am looking for a job teaching EFL. Does anyone know of a good school? I have some experience teahing elementary courses to foreign students.
I want to know of other schools who might have vacancies.
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Post by Lorikeet » Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:41 pm

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singing teaching experience great for pronunciation teaching

Post by poipoi » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:04 am

singingteacher wrote:Hi, I am looking for a job teaching EFL. Does anyone know of a good school? I have some experience teahing elementary courses to foreign students.
I want to know of other schools who might have vacancies.
'lo singingteacher,

what an excellent background for pronunciation teaching! Prosody is the varying intensity, duration and tones of the sound flow patterns as we speak - the “music” of the language. is this a big part of what you teach for singing?

this is what develops in infants' auditory neural networks during the first few months, before the cooing and babbling. it continues to develop further and becomes the foundation for the first words, always spoken like a native.

native speakers, with a fully developed prosody for their first language [L1], can quickly develop listener-friendly pronunciation for the second language [L2] sound patterns which are similar to the L2 sound patterns that are already in their auditory networks. its the L2 sound patterns that are not in their L1 that they can't hear nor produce. these sound patterns are learned by hearing massive repetitions which stimulate and develop new auditory networks for the new sounds. only when the learners can hear the new sounds can they speak them with listener-friendly pronunciation. as this develops they will have more spontanious conversation with native speakers, where the greatest spoken language acquisition occurs.

how does this compare with your singing teaching experiences? how can music be used for more effective pronunciation teaching? i took a beginning voice class which has helped me a lot in my pronunciation teaching.

there is more about the pronunciation teaching method i use, with massive choral repetition, at http://www.k-way.home.sonic.net/.
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