Adrian Underhill

How to integrate pronunciation into everything else that goes on in class is a challenge that seems not to have been resolved. In fact, current practice tends to tip the other way, towards the ‘pron slot’ which looks neat and tidy but which separates rather than integrates pron, putting it in a sideshow of its own, away from the main arena. I’ll look briefly at the pros and cons of integrating versus separating pron, and then describe a practical approach to integration that I use. Maybe it’s what you already do, or maybe you can experiment with. But first: Key fact...

Our guest expert introduces the topic of this issue and summarises the articles.

Adrian Underhill presents a list of ten activities for raising students’ awareness of pronunciation along with their ability to speak and listen .

Adrian Underhill takes us through some new ways of really putting pronunciation at the core of our teaching.