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ETpedia Pronunciation

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ETpedia Pronunciation is the go-to book for teaching pronunciation. It provides all the key terms and techniques in easy-to-understand terms, and equips teachers with a huge range of creative ideas and activities for pronunciation lessons, whether they are being conducted in the classroom or online. Whether you are a newly qualified teacher looking for a one-stop resource or a more experienced teacher looking to expand your skills and integrate pronunciation more actively into their lessons, ETpedia Pronunciation offers 500 tips and ideas to help! With the dramatic rise in live online teaching, the book also includes a special feature on how to teach pronunciation online and make maximum use of the technology available.

Organised into 50 units each containing 10 ideas, this spiral-bound book is easy to dip in and out of. It will save you planning time, provide inspiration, and help you motivate students. It will even anticipate problems students might have with different aspects of pronunciation. Each unit provides you with 10 tips, ideas or activities related to theory and practice in the classroom as well as suggestions for homework and self-study tasks. In the Appendix you will also find photocopiable handouts with additional classroom activities. These can be used exactly as they are, or adapted and developed to suit your own context. Throughout the book you will also find quotes from experienced teachers, sharing their views, ideas and experiences on teaching pronunciation.

Inside, you’ll find sections focusing on different areas such as:

  • the basic pronunciation toolkit
  • knowledge and practical activities
  • integrating pronunciation into lessons effectively
  • online teaching and technology
Reviews

“The key strengths of Hughes and Erasmus’s publication are giving teachers an accessible overview of the theory, methodology and main questions regarding pronunciation: showing how to approach pronunciation to develop students’ receptive (listening) and productive (speaking) skills; offering a wide range of activities on core pronunciation features such as word stress, sentence stress, individual sounds, connected speech and intonation; and having teachers reflect on their teaching.” – Ana P Biazon Rocha, Modern English Teacher (32.3, May/June 2023).

“I’ve benefitted tremendously from the refresher course I felt like I received from reading through ETpedia Pronunciation. It was able to remind me of a few activities I hadn’t used in a while and also introduced a lot of new ones, whilst also enabling me to take a load off my planning and preparation plate with the photocopiable resources in the appendix. Whether just starting out and learning more about pronunciation and phonology, or if in need of a few tips to freshen up the toolkit, teachers at any stage of their career will find ETpedia Pronunciation to be an excellent resource.” – Jonathan Yates, English Australia Journal (39.2, September 2023).

The ETpedia series

The ETpedia series is a collection of resources for English language teachers, offering thousands of tips, ideas, and practical activities. Each title offers 500 ideas on a particular topic, which teachers can dip in and out of as needed to find practical ideas and advice to take straight into the classroom. ETpedia Pronunciation is the twelfth title in the series, and particularly complements ETpedia Vocabulary and ETpedia Grammar. 

Working with Emergent Language

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Emergent language (EL) is any unplanned language item that arises naturally during lessons that the teacher then chooses to focus on for clarification or modification, and this pedagogy is gaining traction year on year. It originally stemmed from Dogme, a popular movement that basically suggested not using coursebooks or set texts in class at all and working with what the students and the teacher themselves provide. Emergent language takes on board lessons learnt from using Dogme and current teaching practices. However, working with EL is considered a very difficult skill to master, especially for newer teachers or trainee teachers. Therefore, it is not often included on training courses or discussed at length in training manuals for teachers. Working with Emergent Language seeks to close this gap by making teachers more aware of what EL is and how they can learn to work with it more effectively and confidently.

What does Working with Emergent Language cover?

This book starts by drawing on the literature and the authors’ own experiences to make the case that working with EL is essential for language acquisition to occur and therefore a skill that language teachers should possess. The case is backed up by research and data from observations to explore how experienced teachers work with EL at different stages of a lesson and why they do so. To show how teachers work with EL, you will be introduced to a new framework of teacher intervention types. This draws on previous frameworks plus the authors’ own terms created following their extensive research. Transcripts and classroom commentaries from genuine lessons show how these interventions are used by teachers and why.

Part two of Working with Emergent Language provides awareness-raising, practice, and reflective tasks to help new and experienced teachers develop their skills with EL. Teacher trainers and educators can also use these tasks during courses, workshops, and observations programmes in schools. Through these tasks, new teachers will be able to work with EL earlier in their careers. Teacher educators can also more confidently introduce EL on their courses. Through the tasks and discussion in this section, you will learn why reflective practice is central to teacher education and development, and through the use of tasks explained in the book, teachers can also take control of their development much earlier in their careers.

The final part of the book addresses typical questions and issues about working with emergent language that teachers often ask. They dispel common conceptions suggesting that working with EL is difficult or inappropriate in some contexts and situations.

These questions include:
  • ‘Can you work with EL with lower levels/teens/younger learners?’,
  • ‘Is it difficult for teachers whose 1st language is not English to work with EL?’,
  • ‘Can you work with EL in exam classes or when you are following a syllabus?’,
  • ‘How can you work with EL when teaching online?’,
  • ‘How might the 1st language be used when working with EL?’.

 

Working with Emergent Language is part of the Teaching English series, which offers practical methodology across a wide range of different topics. Danny Norrington-Davies is also the author of Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons by Pavilion ELT.

Pavilion ELT Digital Catalogue 2022

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Langwich Scool

Welcome to Langwich Scool!

Take a walk through Langwich Scool, which first opened its doors in 1999, in Issue 13 of English Teaching professional. You will discover familiar language teaching scenarios, incidents with students, conversations in the staffroom, trials with professional development, and a whole lot more besides… Topics covered also include teaching children, teenagers and adults and some of the challenges each of these pose. With a healthy dose of wry humour, Jon Marks lifts the lid on the goings on through his cartoon strips. You can see them here all in colour for the first time, alongside some new, unseen till now, cartoons designed to bring the school bang up to date and through the time of the pandemic, and to make anyone in the teaching business laugh out loud!

Whether you fondly remember Langwich School from ETp or it is totally new to you, if you are looking for a wry, humorous commentary on the state of English language teaching, the challenges teachers face and typical learning environments then this is the book for you. It is a simple pick up and flick through cartoon book, for you to dip in to. Perfect as a present or as a treat for yourself, we welcome you to Langwich Scool!

 

 

It’s all about the pre-tasks! Helping learners to read and listen

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Join Carol Lethaby for an online interactive talk, as she explains why it is all about the pre-tasks.

We all want to present tasks that are appropriate, challenging and achievable for the learner. This interactive talk presents some of the research into the effective teaching of reading and listening from An Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching in the English Language Classroom. Focusing on the importance of background knowledge to learning, the session explores why pre-tasks are so vital. It will also consider how to design them effectively. You will have the opportunity to discuss, contrast and evaluate different types of pre-reading and pre-listening tasks. Conclusions will be made about how the language teacher can provide tasks that really promote success in listening and reading comprehension in an second language (L2). The talk will finish with a short Q&A session.

Tickets cost £6 (including VAT). As part of your ticket you will also receive a £10 discount on copies of An Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching in the English Language Classroom, by Carol Lethaby, Russell Mayne and Patricia Harries.

Health and Ageing in a post Covid NHS

Health and Ageing in a post Covid NHS

A collection of online CPD-accredited resources

The GM Conference, Health and Ageing in a post Covid NHS, took place online in October 2022. It brought together healthcare professionals who specialise in older people’s medicine to exchange and disseminate new advances in pharmacological progress as well as debate best clinical practice. The programme looked at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on services and new challenges in managing the health needs of older patients, with a focus on frailty, cardiovascular disease, bone health and community services.

The full event was recorded online, and we are delighted that the recordings of each session are available in the GM Conference 2022 Hub, to be watched in your own time. This includes seven separate sessions, covering the following topics:

The frail patient in the age of Covid-19
Sarcopenia and frailty: what are the new challenges?
Alcohol misuse in the frail patient
Cardiovascular disease: a new era post-Covid
Fractures services and bone health: changing times for core services
The ageing patient in an integrated NHS

You can purchase access to the GM Conference 2022 Hub, for access to all these CPD-accredited recordings. For full details of the conference programme on health and ageing in a post Covid NHS, take a look at the Programme tab or to find out more about the speakers, take a look at the Speaker tab. You can also find out more about our GOLD sponsor Kyowa Kirin in the Sponsors tab. Once you have accesses the Hub and watched the recordings, you can be provided with a CPD certificate.

The Dementia Care Training Library: Module 4

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The Dementia Care Training Library is a a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content. It provides everything for professionals working in relevant care services to deliver authoritative in-house training. Once users have delivered the two core introductory modules contained within the Starter Pack binder, they can expand the training library by adding any of the twelve further Dementia Care Training Library modules (Modules 3-14). These will be published regularly throughout 2022 and 2023. The optional modules are provided as loose-leaf pages to be added to the master binder.

All Dementia Care Training Library materials take an Action Learning approach. This provides a balance of information and practice-based activities that allow learners to reflect on and apply new knowledge in real time as a staff team, and which ultimately leads to changes in practice in the care environment.

 

Pavilion Learn Online Training

Pavilion Learn Online Training

Social Care, Professional development, compliance and wellbeing online training- for all employees and managers, at all levels.

With training provided by industry experts, the course’s flexibility enables you to learn at your own pace and means they can be adapted also be used for group training or for individual leadership development.

Our training is CPD accredited with instant digital certificates available on completion of the course.

 

Good Care Leadership

Good Care Leadership

Presented by Pail Whitby

Good frontline leadership is vital to improving morale and care
quality in health and social care teams.  This essential training
and development course addresses that need through a
straightforward and powerful leadership framework.