ESL Links: Speaking and Pronunciation

Pronouncing English Sounds - "to help learners of English with the pronunciation of specific sounds."

Conversation Questions – Listings of conversation starter questions by themes.

The English Desk – Podcasts with narrated passages of text for listening and pronunciation practice. Transcripts and exercises are provided with each podcast.

Pizzaz – Simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with printable handouts.

Phonetics - The sounds of the Spoken Language - This site contains FLASH animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign languages.

OUC's ESL Pronunciation Online - Part of the Okanagan University College Web site, this project is in its initial stages and already contains six units on pronunciation. Each of these units contains a "Minimal Pairs" exercise - "hear pairs of words that are the same except for one sound"; Tongue Twisters to practice the sounds; and a dictation.

ESL Cafe Web Guide Pronunciation - A good source of annotated links to additional resources on pronunciation.

ESL/EFL teachers are realizing more and more that pronunciation is just as an important component of language as grammar and vocabulary and that the teaching of pronunciation in a systematic way has been ignored for too long. It is the often-neglected wheel in language instruction..." -- English pronunciation: the 4th wheel by Paulette Dale, Ph.D.