Mercredi 15 Octobre, 2025
Prosodic aspects of speech like melodic and rhythmic patterning are known to be essential for the comprehensibility and intelligibility of second language speakers. The central unit of prosody is the prosodic phrase (also called the thought group in teaching materials), and the teaching of phrase-level prosody is therefore of great relevance.In this professional-development workshop, targeting in-service and pre-service ESL/EFL teachers and emerging researchers, I will introduce ...
Speakers’ pronunciation can have a powerful effect on both how well they are understood and how they are perceived, but the nature and the degree of that effect also depends on their listeners. In this workshop, we will explore some of the evidence of the importance of the listener’s role and ways to address it in different venues, including creating opportunities to address L1 listeners’ as well as L2 listeners’ attitudes and skills relating to comprehension of speakers from a wide variety o...
with live captions in English La recherche scientifique ne se développe jamais dans le vide : elle est traversée par des préoccupations sociales bien concrètes. À partir du cas du français, je montrerai comment ces enjeux peuvent façonner la manière dont nous pensons et étudions la prononciation en langue seconde. Scientific research never develops in a vacuum: It is informed by concrete social concerns. Using the case of French, I will s...
Jeudi 16 Octobre, 2025
with live captions in French Both researchers and teachers want to know how to improve pronunciation efficiently and effectively, but the evidence is difficult to piece together. Part of the problem is how we go about doing research. In this talk, I use high variability phonetic training to illustrate how big-team speech science can provide more concrete and generalizable answers on pronunciation training, and I present a model for how to do it: Pronunciation Res...
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Vendredi 17 Octobre, 2025
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with live captions in French This PSLLT conference hosted a unique event in which accomplished pronunciation scholars from around the world were invited to offer their views on the best directions forward for both pronunciation teaching and research for the next decade. A day-long session was held in which the participants blue-skied their thoughts on the future (blue sky thinking is a brainstorming approach that encourages exploring ideas without immediate limit...