1.3 Practicing Conversational English with Multilingual Communicators

04/04/2022 42 min

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, Eric is joined by Rob Griffin, Atlanta-based ESL/ELL specialist with an emphasis on second-language acquisition, phonology, and inter-language dynamics, to discuss ways in which consultants, instructors, and English-language learners themselves can work on improving a student's conversational English, with particular attention to the importance of phonology in mastering conversational English.
Recommended resources:

Pronuncian (a pronunciation website for non-native speakers of English)
Speech Accent Archive (a website indicating common English pronunciation difficulties facing speakers of different languages)
Connected Speech (pronunciation software—disk only)
Pronunciation Assessment and Recommended Exercises