More chirpy remarks (November & December 2016)
Hello! Doing some proper writing is really tough these days, so here's an update of my latest rambles on pronunciation issues and accents while on the go. Enjoy!
View ArticleBlog posts I would like to write
Time goes by and my guilt for not doing any writing over here increases exponentially, especially as my mind is always relating every single piece of my reading to my former teaching. I thought I might...
View ArticleTaking a blogging break
Hello, everyone. As I may have mentioned before, life here is really hectic. There are quite a few deadlines, and there is my daily reading and writing routine to attend to. I have fabulous professors...
View ArticleReflection in Passing: The Macro and the Micro in Pron Teaching
I awoke out of my blogging lethargy today as I was catching up on my social media and read a few interesting things, like Mark Hancock's "Models in Pronunciation" post here. Since I have been...
View ArticleAn impulsive reply.
I know I should not be blogging, and less so, because I keep doing it impulsively, but as I read discussions on pronunciation teaching and teacher training, I think I need to say things. Not so long...
View ArticleVoices in Society: A Workshop on Prosody
This week I got to spend three busy days in the always busy (yet energy-infusing) London, more specifically at Queen Mary University, to learn more about prosody. The workshop was called "Voices in...
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Phonetics for linguists, Phonetics for teachers
(I am still pressed for time, but I got this post drafted some time ago, so here it goes!) I have always been curious about how linguists get trained in Phonetics -as my initial training is in English...
View ArticleSome phon bits I have learned lately - Part 1
(This is an automatic publication of a blog post drafted in February 2017) During these last few months, I have been re-drafting my research proposal for my PhD, reading lots of biblio, auditing a few...
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3 years old!
Source: clipartsgram.com This month this blog turns 3.The beginning. It all started because I had a lot to say about pronunciation teaching in my context, after that fab IATEFL 2014 conference where I...
View ArticleCompendium of Facebook posts
This is just a collection of a few informal experiments,anecdotes, and nucleus placement rule examples I have been putting together these last few months in the UK. They have all been published on my...
View ArticleSome phon bits I have learned lately - Part 2
Hi! This is another post on bits I have learned, unlearned, or re-confirmed, during my PhD studies here so far. I am already over six months into the programme, and I am starting to feel that...
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Brief review: Manchester Voices exhibition
This week I got my PhD confirmation (that is, I passed my first year, which means that I am now a confirmed PhD candidate at York, yay!), and I rewarded myself with a short trip to Manchester, to see...
View ArticleBrief report: some phon-related talks at IPrA 2017 in Belfast (July 16-21)
Hello, hello! Hope you are all doing well. Life over here is hectic, as usual, and a few days ago I decided I had to take a holiday after a year (or more) of basically working non-stop, so I'm back at...
View ArticleBrief report: PTLC 2017, part 1
I'm still conference-crawling, and this time, I'm at UCL, in London, for the lovely Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference (PTLC), held every two years (hashtag for all the live-tweeting:...
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PTLC 2017, part 2
Find below a brief report on the two keynote presentations on day 2 at UCL's PTLC conference. As usual, you will see info from the presentations interspersed with my own comments. Any errors in...
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PTLC, part 3
Hello, again! This is my last post on the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference at UCL (click to read parts 1 and 2 ). I will not be able to to report on all the content of every talk, so you'll...
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Brief conf report: English UK North Academic - University of Liverpool,...
Yesterday I got on the train from York to Liverpool (in what ended up being an endless 3 1/2 train-train-bus journey...yes, transport may also fail in Britain!) to attend and present at the English UK...
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Brief colloquium report: The Phoneme: new applications of an old concept
Today I poked my head out of my screen to take a break and attend this very interesting talk by Dom Watt, whose Advanced Phonetics student I'm lucky enough to be at the moment. Here is the abstract:...
View ArticleBliss & Fear: Teaching an Intro to Phonetics seminar to L1 speakers of English
Hiya! Sorry about my blogging silence. In part it was due to my having finally embraced the fact that I am no longer a pronunciation teacher, nor a lecturer in Applied Phonetics, apart from the fact...
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Event report: "Pronunciation: The Missing Link" - Chester Uni, Feb 17, 2018 -...
Last Saturday I left the East to cross the Pennines and after a three-hour train journey I arrived in the wonderful and picturesque city of Chester.Lovely Chester (credit: MNC)PronSIG were holding a...
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Event report: "Pronunciation: The Missing Link" - Chester Uni, Feb 17, 2018 -...
Hello, again! I said I would devote an entire post to my presentation at the PronSIG event in Chester (see full report here) , and I had not yet done it because I'm currently drowning in deadlines,...
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Full circle: Summer Course in English Phonetics...again!
I'm halfway through my PhD and things are getting really exciting. This also means that I'm digging deeper into the areas of knowledge that are more closely related to my research topic, and I have...
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SCEP100: 100 years and 85 iterations of the Summer Course in English Phonetics
It's really crazy to see that a whole year has gone by since I wrote my last blog post. A whole year, four conferences, two awards, three terms of teaching, 140,000 words written on my thesis, and...
View ArticleProsody and rock and roll again!
Hi, there, readers! Sorry I've been a stranger, but life over here is hectic, and I have fully and unashamedly embraced the fact that it's really okay if I don't blog often (or at all!). This is a bit...
View ArticleBye for now!
I started this blog in 2014 out of a need to say things somehow out loud. I had my dream job teaching phonetics and pronunciation, I had lots of ideas, but I was also navigating something that to me...
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