Stress to Impress · James Egerton IH Riga-Satva . Pronunciation: The Cinderella of ELT? WORD STRESS. What is stress? What is stress? VOLUME PITCH LENGTH QUALITY ‘The failure to

Stress to Impress

James EgertonIH Riga-Satva

www.jamesegerton.wordpress.com

Pronunciation: The Cinderella of ELT?

WORD STRESS

What is stress?

What is stress?VOLUMEPITCHLENGTHQUALITY

‘The failure to learn the stress of new

words often leads to an inability to

recognise those words in spoken form'

– Gilbert, 2008, Using the Prosody Pyramid.

= PROBLEMS WITH

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

'Tendency may be a better term than rule...I

don't want learners to be sidetracked by

cognitive rules with limited application...the

best rule is to be alert’

- Adrian Underhill.

DON’T TEACH THE

RULES.

Mark main stress when boarding vocab

How much?

€15 or €50?

13 40 60

50 17 80

19 15 16

BINGO

Stretch the Stress

flictCON

FLICTcon

Stretch the Stress

conflict conflict

contest contest

present present

produce produce

recall recall

record record

CONflict (n) conFLICT (v)

CONtest (n) conTEST (v)

PREsent (n) preSENT (v)

PROduce (n) proDUCE (v)

REcall (n) reCALL (v)

REcord (n) reCORD (v)

Stand on the Stress

Definitely

DE fin it li:

Definitely

Comfortable

Interesting

Sentence Stress

'If stressed words determine how we say the

intervening unstressed structure words, why then

do course books start with the single phonemes

and go on to 'connected' speech? Sentence stress

would be a far easier guide to speaking.'

Brita Haycraft (co-founder of IH)IH Journal Issue 36, Spring 2014.

Content words are stressed.

What are content words?

Content words are stressed.

What are content words?

Verbs

Nouns

Adjectives

Adverbs

I’ve never been to Riga before.

Content words?

I’ve NEVer BEEN to R I G A before

English is stressed timed.

...but what does this

mean?

SELL BIKE GONE FRANCE

my toGONE FRANCESELLBIKE

I’ve

my to live inGONE FRANCESELL BIKE cos I’veCan you old

‘Heart rate graph’ sentence stress

Is it…?

a.Riga has a big market

a.I’d like a cup of coffee

‘Heart rate graph’ sentence stress

a.Riga has a big market

a.I’d like a cup of

coffee

vs. Nuclear Stress

“Maybe you need to call me.”

I have something to tell you.

What do you want from me?

James Egerton

[email protected]

Questions?

get in touch

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