Almost every word she attempted to pronounce was wrong. This lady had been teaching English in a state school for more than 10 years, and she had no idea that her pronunciation was so bad. She was ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Pronunciation instruction has been shown to improve learners' L2 accent in some, though certainly not all, cases. A core component of ...

If you want to pick up a new language, there’s no shortage of options, and free ones, at that. But one aspect of the process that has been neglected is pronunciation, which is an especially important ...

Google has two new features to help you better learn tricky English words. Firstly, there’s an experimental pronunciation feature that lets you practice pronunciation of unfamiliar words right in ...

There is no authoritative evidence, i.e. in the form of empirical studies, that adult learners who are taught by teachers with a foreign accent learn, speak or pronounce German differently to those ...

Siri making a meal of your boyfriend’s name? Or is it just not getting the right amount of twang in when trying to say the name of the local cab firm? If you think Siri’s pronunciation skills leave ...

A SCHOOL head teacher has urged pupils to correct their sloppy language if they want to find a good job later in life. Parents with children at Sacred Heart Primary School, in Middlesbrough, were sent ...

The iPhone’s robotic voice is impressive, but it’s still a robot, and it still mispronounces things. Especially names. (Just ask my daughter Tia, whose name Siri pronounces “Shy-ah.”) But in iOS 10, ...

It makes no sense to pronounce correctly some, and not all, of the words in a pronunciation routine. Vietnamese students of English deserve the very best pronunciation from their teachers. They should ...