Teaching Pronunciation for Indigenous Languages

Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins

Colleen Fitzgerald

This workshop focuses on what you need to know in order to learn to pronounce words/sentences and to teach others pronunciation. Possible topics include: how sounds are made; different types of knowledge (phonetic and phonological) about sounds and sound systems and how these affect pronunciation; the value of instrumental analysis for learning and teaching pronunciation; how to adapt a linguistic grammatical description or pronunciation guide for use in a language classroom; the relationship between writing systems, descriptions, and transcriptions of sounds; using verbal arts as tools for teaching pronunciation; and the use or development of language resources on sounds and sound systems. The workshop is geared towards speech community members or linguists thinking about how to learn and teach pronunciation in community contexts.