STEP: Staging Time For English Pronunciation. An 8 step training course for teachers who want to work on Pronunciation.
€700
56 hours Teachers should be aware of the importance and significance of pronunciation and be open to corrective action and exercises to achieve correct English pronunciation. Course participants are requested to bring their own laptops to use during the course.
• Icebreakers • Course Outline & Guidelines •Project Brainstorming •Cork Discovery
• Cork Discovery Report • Green English • What is “Staging”? • Project Action!
• STEP 1: Funetics • English for the World – ELF & Language Specific Errors
• STEP 2: Stressed Out! • STEP 3: Intonation
• STEP 2: Stressed Out! • STEP 3: Intonation
• The Irish Education System
July 13th to July 24th 2015 August 10th to August 21st 2015
To perfect course participants’ pronunciation and to expose teachers to methods and ideas for teaching pronunciation to their students. The communicative approach to language teaching and learning is used in all sessions. Workshops and guest speakers are also used in the course.
June 22nd to July 3rd 2015
Sept. 14 th to Sept. 25 th 2015 • STEP 5: the Schwa • STEP 6: Connected speech • Project Action!
• STEP 7: Consonant Sounds Death of RP + Native VS Non-Native = How native is native? • Staging Varieties of English
•Communicati ve competence • Internet as a resource • Pronunciation Surgery
• STEP 8: Homonyms & Homophones • Staging Poetry • Project Action!
• Grammar & Language Surgery • Course Evaluation
October 19th to October 30th 2015 • Irish Host Family €525 – 13 nights • Self catering apartment €320 – 14 nights