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Mark Hancock

Mark is a teacher, trainer and author of many ELT titles including: Pronunciation Games, English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate and Mark Hancock’s 50 Tips for Teaching Pronunciation (all CUP). His self-published collection PronPack 1–4 received the 2018 ELTons award for innovation in teacher resources. His latest books are PronPack: Connected speech for listeners and PronPack: Word recognition for listeners (Hancock McDonald ELT)

It works in practice: Monthly pronunciation check

An activity for checking the pronunciation of the months of the year.

Schwa is mainly for listening

The article offers a range of activities for raising learners awareness of the schwa sound most common in connected speech.

Fun with phrasal homophones

Linking, elision, assimilation and stress are all features of speech our learners need to practise. Online resource available.

IPA: symbols of power?

Mark Hancock investigates using the IPA and argues that it is a phonemic rather than phonetic chart. It is a useful guide to pronunciation but not all sounds are and accents are precisely covered.

Book review – Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca

Mark Hancock reviews a book which intends to bridge the gap from research and theory and English as a Lingua Franca to actual classroom practice
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