Forthcoming Events
June
Many of us are concerned about improving our students’ pronunciation but never seem to find the right time, the right way or the right weight this training should take in our lessons. At last!
Prof. Patricia Arbona will be offering a new approach to pronunciation teaching.
Drama and pronunciation teaching. The hows and whys.
The basic premise is that, through drama, pronunciation teaching becomes more effective, because various components of communicative competence( discourse intonation, pragmatic awareness, nonverbal communication) can be practised in an integrated way.
This presentation will introduce participants into the world of sounds in connected speech and will engage them in a series of practical and energizing drama based activities that will allow them to teach pronunciation more creatively.
Patricia Laura Arbona graduated as a teacher of English at Instituto Superior de Formación Docente n º 127 in San Nicolás Buenos Aires and holds a postgraduate degree from UBA, the National University of Buenos Aires. She has been in the ELT field since 1980, working as a teacher and teacher trainer. She is a teacher of phonetics, phonology, spoken language and methodology. She teaches drama in Spanish and English at Instituto Superior de Formación Docente n º 127. She has contributed articles to academic journals and has given lectures on discourse and drama. She is the founder of LudoDrama, a group of enthusiastic teachers whose main concern is educational drama, not only to teach English, but all the subjects across the school curriculum. LudoDrama’ s mission is to spread the magic of drama in education and transform the art of teaching.
Venue: to be confirmed
Date:
Fee: to be confirmed
Free for members Non-members: $ 150. = Students: $ 60. =