Pronunciation teaching doesn’t work because for 50 years the approach has been essentially cognitive, which may be fine for learning grammar and vocabulary, but pronunciation is muscular, like a subtle version of learning to dance. And the mastering of such physicality does not lend itself to the written word, or to course books… neither does learning to dance.
I will outline a proprioceptive approach to awareness and the physical skill of making new sounds, and to the distribution of energy across connected speech. All this with a focus on personal expression and speaking from the heart, while taking account of the new reality of online teaching.
