Joshua Gordon, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA
Meghan Moran, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

Brandon Cooper, Texas A and M University, Texas, USA
Mara Haslam, Stockholm University, Sweden

John Levis, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

This article describes useful aspects of teaching prominence that can help teachers to teach suprasegmentals. Prominence, essential to intelligible speech, helps shape how listeners understand speakers through its shaping of connected speech, its ability to call attention to contrasts, and how it calls attention to new and given information. Read More

William D. Kirchmann and Leland Rieks, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA

Prosody and connected speech phenomena are key to increasing comprehensibilty in ELLs (Derwing et al., 1998; Gordon & Darcy, 2022; Hahn, 2004). In this article, we offer a few sample lessons that can be adapted to an ESL classroom by using the communicative framework of pronunciation teaching by Celce-Murcia et al. (2010) to improve the pronunciation element known as linking in ELLs. Read More

Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA

This brief article is a guide to Ward and Levow’s graduate-level tutorial on Speech Prosody, just released on Youtube as a 4-hour, 29-lecture video series, focusing on the topics most likely to be of interest to language educators. Read More

Sydney Coloff, Myriam Carrillo, and Ava Deitrich, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA

This 5-day unit plan teaches two suprasegmental features, word and sentence stress, using the 5 stages of Celce-Murcia et al. (2010)’s communicative framework for teaching pronunciation. The content, cultural holidays, can be changed to reflect the specific cultural and language backgrounds of the students in any ESL classroom. Read More