Excellent article -- thank you. I've spent a lot of time correcting /h/ with Italian and Portguese speakers, and have come across a recurring issue. Students aspirate (I think this is the right w...
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I believe (as I can't find it in Episode 11), and my recollection is, that the word proprioception was actually used in a 2012 pronunciation workshop - part of an Oxford summer course aimed at En...
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Yes, good questions. For me the underlying aim is to help learners become aware, through their own discovery, of what the thing they are learning consists. Counting is an activity that can help t...
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Thanks Adrian for your reply. It's very interesting the idea of three levels of counting, especially the first one, counting the movements when you make a sound. As for the whole thing, sometimes...
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Thanks Elvira for this question. I think this is a really good point. The basic purpose of asking the learner (and teacher) to count what is there, is that the activity of counting requires one t...
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Thanks, Adrian, for the new post. Since we were counting sounds in Cambridge last summer, I've been doing this activity with my class regularly I really feel that it helps them to be aware of the...
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Hello Adrian. Thanks for your latest super interesting blogpost that I read last night after a very busy day in the middle of the Sitges BESIG 2015 conference. I checked out Simply Business in th...
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Thanks, and yes, there are times to hang on to your money!
In reply to Adrian Underhill. Hi Adrian. Thanks for the response. Fair commen...
In reply to punster30. Hi punster30! Thanks for your comment. I agree it's no...