#IATEFL – Pronunciation to Go: learning to learn from the dictionary (OUP Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 10 | April 13, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Mark Hancock says, “Proverbial wisdom tells us that if you give someone a fish, they can eat for a day, but if you teach someone to fish, they can eat for a lifetime. It’s a message about the long-term value of learning new skills and becoming independent. A similar thing could be said about pronunciation and dictionaries. Each time you teach a learner to pronounce a word, their English benefits a little, but they remain dependent on you. If, however, you can show your learners how to teach themselves the pronunciation of a word using the dictionary, they can improve their own English independently for ever more. (more…)

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The Why Linguistics Conference, May 7-9, 2015 – Tartu, Estonia

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 9 | April 6, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

After decades of seemingly scattered research, the question of how linguistics fits into the bigger picture of the sciences and the world of knowledge in general has surfaced in connection with new methods and technological advances which deal with natural language and communication, attempt to simulate them, or use linguistic knowledge to interpret human behavior.
This conference proposes a constructive take on the question “Why?”, as in, why are we doing what we are doing as linguists, and what is our contribution to knowledge? Or, equally well, what is the contribution of a particular domain of linguistics to other disciplines, and in turn, their contribution to linguistics? To what end do linguistics and any such neighboring fields of research or industry converge in their methods, results and problem setting? This is intended to be the binding theme of this otherwise highly interdisciplinary event.

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