Edited by Patrick Andrews, Monday, 29 Aug 2016, 12:43
In the previous posting, I referred to teaching a group of teachers who are preparing to teach through English. In today's class, there was an interesting incident that made me think about prioritisiation in terms of pronunciation and lexis. One student used the word still but it sounded to me very similar to steel. After some clarification, we established the meaning intended but we discussed whether it might often be best for him to avoid the word still and use synonyms like static or stationary.
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In the previous posting, I referred to teaching a group of teachers who are preparing to teach through English. In today's class, there was an interesting incident that made me think about prioritisiation in terms of pronunciation and lexis. One student used the word still but it sounded to me very similar to steel. After some clarification, we established the meaning intended but we discussed whether it might often be best for him to avoid the word still and use synonyms like static or stationary.