TESOL - How to Teach English Vowel Sounds

Course details

Discover this amazingly super-effective, super-easy way to teach the pronunciation of English vowels.  Learn how to teach English vowels so your students acquire a more natural sound, stress and rhythm in English.

The course is written for teachers, tutors, and accent coaches at intermediate and advanced levels. It is designed to help make your pronunciation teaching better.

Whether you're teaching children or coaching diplomats, this method works to improve your students' pronunciation and move them toward a more natural sound in English.

This is not a theory course. It is a demonstration of how to the pronunciation of English vowels to adults in such a way that they really do acquire the sounds. Between demonstrations there are explanations that tell why these are such effective teaching strategies.

The purpose of this course is to show you exactly how to elicit natural vowel production from your students, which is critical to English pronunciation.

Section 2 gets you ready to teach vowels. You can jump to Section 3 if you just can't wait to see this remarkable method in action, but be sure to come back to Section 2, because this is where you create the foundation of your teaching system. You'll customize the tools you need for teaching pronunciation--tools that you can take with you wherever you go. This method eliminates the need to buy course books or textbooks or pronunciation practice materials. You'll use free materials programs online to become a more powerful pronunciation teacher. You can use these same programs and websites with your students if they have access to the internet. Section 1 begins with a pre-test so you can assess your own knowledge and skill set for teaching vowels.

In Section 3, you'll master the gestures that work like magic to improve your students' vowel sounds. You'll discover how to teach English vowels for permanent change. Your students will never forget this technique and neither will you. Since speaking is physical, the best way to teach new sounds is a method that combines physical retraining with analytical understanding and neurological reinforcements. Using visual and auditory reprogramming, you'll develop the strongest, longest-lasting language learning that is possible. This method works not only with beginner and intermediate learners of English, but has shown amazing results with advanced students working on accent reduction and comprehensibility. Section 3 is the heart of this course.

In Section 4, you'll design feedback loops for your students to reinforce what they've learned. You don't want them to lose their newly gained English vowel sounds. You'll learn about feedback loops that include the teacher, and feedback loops for the student to use independently. The important thing is--your students will need a way to ascertain if they're successfully creating the English vowel sounds. We don't want all their practice time to be spent creating and strengthening the wrong sounds! 

In Section 5 you'll review everything covered in the course and measure your understanding with a post-test to find out if you know all the strategies and tools for teaching English vowels like a pro. Each question on the post-test addresses a critical feature needed for teaching and learning. With the answers in hand, you'll organize your own system for teaching English vowels--one that you'll never forget and that you can take with you wherever in the world you go! 

Every strategy and technique has been tested over hours and hours in the classroom. These are proven strategies that result in much more successful English pronunciation learning--much happier students as well as teachers!

If you are an ESL or EFL teacher, or an English tutor, or an accent reduction coach, or if you aspire to be, this is an investment that you can't pass up, because it's an investment in yourself. Happy students will refer their friends to you. Your expertise will be recognized by your company or school. Their is no "down" side to becoming better at teaching.

I hope you join me and find out what I've learned from years of pronunciation teaching and empirical research done in my classrooms. Join me and become a more effective, more efficient, more confident English pronunciation teacher!