Name: Best of Utah: Poor sandhi, bad timing and a lazy habit: Improving Spanish pronunciation in native English speakers
Start: 2016-03-04T11:30:00-1000
End: 2016-03-04T12:30:00-1000

Welcome to SWCOLT/HALT 2016!
Co-host Hawaii Association of Language Teachers
At the Hilton Waikiki Beach Hotel on Kuhio, Honolulu, Hawaii
Pre-conference Workshops, Thursday March 3
Conference Sessions March 4-5

Connect to ATTwifi network.
Enter promocode swcolt16.

Back To Schedule

Best of Utah: Poor sandhi, bad timing and a lazy habit: Improving Spanish pronunciation in native English speakers

Click Here to Submit an Evaluation of this Session!

Do you or your students still sound like Gringos? This session will define and practice three stubborn phonological phenomena that remain troublesome in the speech patterns of even Advanced level speakers of Spanish. These are:
1) synaloepha,
2) syllabic rhythm, and
3) post-tonic vowel reduction.
These three principles will be defined and recorded examples of both native like and non-native use will be shared. Participants will practice entertaining exercises they can use with their students to improve pronunciation.

Presenters

Tom Mathews

Professor of Spanish, Weber State University

I have taught Spanish language, linguistics and pedagogy at the university level for 28 years. Before that I taught junior high school Spanish and lower-division Spanish while I was a graduate student. One of my favorite classes to teach is Phonetics and Phonology; this presentation... Read More →

SWCOLT Handout ThreeBadHabits pdf

SWCOLT ThreeBadHabits pptx

Friday March 4, 2016 11:30am - 12:30pm HST
Kauai

Session (60 minute)

Target Language Spanish
Presentation Language English
Language Level General (all levels)
Keyword The Learning Experience
Tags FSII-12

SWCOLT / HALT

Sign up or log in to save this to your schedule, view media, leave feedback and see who's attending!

Tom Mathews