Adrian underhill biography

My aim is to post information and discussion that could help teachers and learners of English (though ultimately of any language) to explore and experiment with new and more successful ways of integrating the pronunciation of sounds, words and connected speech with the rest of language learning.

At the moment there are two primary tools, both of them new and outside traditional and &#;received&#; teacher training:

• The first is the Sound Foundations pronunciation chart which I designed in the s and first copyrighted in It and its descendants hang in classrooms all over the world.

  The next step is to use them well, which is what this site is about.

• The second is proprioception, which refers to a kind of aware physicality, which (so far) I have found to be the most effective way of liberating learners from the &#;grip&#; of mother tongue sound postures, in order to allow the different coordinations of tongue, lips, jaw and breath needed for the successful learning, use and enjoym