Spoken language is like music. Participants learn how to incorporate melody, rhythm and movement into listening-speaking lessons. Activities demonstrated include scaffolding elements of speech, capturing the hidden prosodic elements of stress, intonation, and rhythm, and enabling learners to attain the music of English. Engage your visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities! The slides tell a part of the story. The physical activities during the workshop help you learn by doing. marsha@sunburstmedia.com www.youtube.com/pronunciationdoctor

1. Marsha Chan
Mission College and Sunburst Media

2. LANGUAGE
Syllables
 Stressed syllables
 Reduced syllables
 Rhythm
 Intonation
 Thought groups
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MUSIC
Beats
 Long notes
 Short notes
 Rhythm
 Pitch change
 Phrases
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3.  Poems
 Slogans
 Songs
 Physical
actions

4.  50-100
repetitions of a phrase generate a
“feel” for the sound, grammar, meaning
and usage
 Repetition
activates
neurophysiological connections.
facilitates automaticity and flexibility.
promotes perception of allophonic
boundaries.
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5. For more practice, go to www.youtube.com/user/pronunciationdoctor;
within Pronunciation Doctor’s Channel, search on the term “clap”.
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6. Eng•lish
 in•struc•tor
 cur•ri•cu•lum
 lan•guage
 com•mon
 com•mu•ni•ty
 im•por•tant
 pos•i•tive

hap•py
 hap•pi•ness
 li•bra•ry
 li•bra•ri•an
 pro•noun•ces
 pro•nun•ci•a•tion
 pho•no•lo•gy
 pho•no•lo•gi•cal
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7. LONG LONG LONG
 Row,
SHORTLONG
row, row, your boat
LONG SHORTLONG SHORTL––O––NG
 Gently
down the stream.
SHORTSHORTSHORTSHORTSHORTSHORTSHORTSHORTSHORTSHORTSHORTSHORT
 Merrily,
merrily, merrily, merrily,
LONG SHORTLONG SHORTL––O––NG
 Life
is but a dream.

8.  Row,
row, row, your boat
 Gently
down the stream.
 Merrily,
 Life
merrily, merrily, merrily,
is but a dream.
For more practice, go to www.youtube.com/user/pronunciationdoctor;
within Pronunciation Doctor’s Channel, search on the term “vowel length”.

9. EVEN
RISING
FALLING
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
At ten
At ten
At ten
For more practice, go to www.youtube.com/user/pronunciationdoctor;
within Pronunciation Doctor’s Channel, search on the term “intonation”.

10.  Rising
intonation: the pitch rises on the
stressed syllable of the key word in a phrase.
 Falling intonation: the pitch falls on the
stressed syllable of the key word in a phrase.
If
Intonation is difficult for some people to
perceive. Phrases from a popular song may
help listeners anchor rising vs. falling pitch.

11.  In
the song "Happy Birthday to you" the
syllable birth is at a higher pitch than day, so
the intonation is falling on the word
birthday.
 Marsha’s version of Happy Birthday helps
learners practice the voiceless TH /θ/ sound.
http://youtu.be/CiODBcNo9Cs

13.  In
the song "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" both
phrases My Country and 'Tis of Thee are
rising.
 http://youtu.be/zKZg_ZB4SkU

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16. LA-la Eng•lish
 la-LA-la
in•struc•tor
 la-LA-la-la
cur•ri•cu•lum
 LA-la lan•guage
 LA-la com•mon
 la-LA-la-la
com•mu•ni•ty
 la-LA-la im•por•tant
 LA-la-la pos•i•tive

hap•py
 hap•pi•ness
 li•bra•ry
 li•bra•ri•an
 pro•noun•ces
 pro•nun•ci•a•tion
 pho•no•lo•gy
 pho•no•lo•gi•cal
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17.  We’ve
met before.
 Pardon?
I
saw you at CATESOL in two thousand twelve
(2012).
 Right,
we have met. You look familiar, too.

18. Contact information for Marsha
Chan, the Pronunciation Doctor
 marsha@sunburstmedia.com
 www.youtube.com/PronunciationDoctor
 www.linkedin.com/in/PronunciationDoctor
 www.slideshare.net/purplecast
 www.marshaprofdev.blogspot.com
 www.sunburstmedia.com/present/present.ht
ml
 www.missioncollege.edu/depts/esl/faculty/c
han/chan.html

19. Marsha Chan
CATESOL presentations
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Using Video to Flip ESL Speaking,
Listening, and Pronunciation Fri
8:30-9:30
Games Employing Movement,
Memory, Meaning, Mingling,
Monitoring, &Communication Fri
11:00-12:00
What Language Teachers Must
Know to Teach Pronunciation Fri
3:30-5:00
Teaching of Pronunciation
Interest Group Networking &
Business Meeting Fri 5:00-5:45
Learning and Teaching the Music
of Spoken English Sat 10:1511:15
Read, Write, Listen, Speak:
Projects for Integrating Language
Skills Sat 2:30-3:30
Contact information
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marsha@sunburstmedia.com
www.youtube.com/Pronunci
ationDoctor
www.linkedin.com/in/Pronu
nciationDoctor
www.slideshare.net/purplec
ast
www.marshaprofdev.blogspo
t.com
www.sunburstmedia.com/pr
esent/present.html
www.missioncollege.edu/de
pts/esl/faculty/chan/chan.h
tml