Best Methods in Teaching Pronunciation and Fluency

Kelly Smith has taught ESL/EFL for twenty years in the U.S., Mexico, and Italy. Although she has taught all subjects, her specialties include grammar, pronunciation, and test prep courses. She also has extensive experience in designing and developing course outlines, curricula, lessons, activities, exams, and materials. Furthermore, Ms. Smith is highly experienced as a teacher-trainer. She has prepared and presented professional development training workshops for teaching staff on various subjects including computer software and pronunciation & fluency. In addition, she has created a variety of training manuals for teaching staff.

Ms. Smith’s TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) experience includes teaching a variety of teacher-training courses in the areas of pronunciation, reading, and culture (Best Methods in Teaching Pronunciation and Fluency, Introduction to Pronunciation and Fluency for Language Teachers, Theory and Methods of Reading Instruction, Cross-Cultural Issues in Language Teaching). In addition, she has instructed two TEYL (Teaching English to Young Learners) teacher-training courses (Focus on the Learner and Focus on the Classroom). She has also developed curriculum for and instructed an online reading course via Blackboard for the TEFL program (Theory and Methods of Reading Instruction).

Lisa Naylor has over 25 years of experience teaching at the university level and in the private sector, including teaching abroad in Japan and Switzerland. Her areas of expertise include multimedia curriculum development, specialized curriculum development, teacher training, and  pronunciation improvement.  She has developed and taught a wide variety of courses and workshops ranging from highly specialized medical English courses to the TEFL Teaching Young Language Learners series to business vocabulary courses to multiple levels of idiomatic English courses. She is the author of Join the Club:  Idioms for Academic and Social Success, I and II.  She is also the curriculum designer and instructor for the Medical English Program, and she teaches for the TEFL Certificate Program.  Ms. Naylor also enjoys mentoring novice teachers and providing them with feedback regarding best practices in instructional delivery.
 

Lisa Naylor has over 25 years of experience teaching at the university level and in the private sector, including teaching abroad in Japan and Switzerland. Her areas of expertise include multimedia curriculum development, specialized curriculum development, teacher training, and  pronunciation improvement.  She has developed and taught a wide variety of courses and workshops ranging from highly specialized medical English courses to the TEFL Teaching Young Language Learners series to business vocabulary courses to multiple levels of idiomatic English courses. She is the author of Join the Club:  Idioms for Academic and Social Success, I and II.  She is also the curriculum designer and instructor for the Medical English Program, and she teaches for the TEFL Certificate Program.  Ms. Naylor also enjoys mentoring novice teachers and providing them with feedback regarding best practices in instructional delivery.