Interview with Victor Medina

In this episode, Victor and I chat extensively about experiences with accentism, native speakerism, and intelligibility. Victor has dedicated his career to the area of pronunciation and has so much knowledge about it that it was delightful (per usual) to listen to him talking about where his passion came from and anecdotes from his career.   

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Here are some references that Victor recommends: Edwards, Emily. “Action Research in Action” English Teaching Professional, Issue 94, Sept. 2014, pp. 52-54. Hancock, Mark. “ELF: Beyond Dogma and Denial.” Speak Out! - Journal of the IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group, Issue 60, Feb. 2019, pp. 15-22. Ishikawa, Tomokazu, and Jenkins, Jennifer. “What is ELF? Introductory questions and answers for ELT professionals”. Center for English as a Lingua Franca Journal 5. 2019, pp. 1-10. Jenkins, Jennifer. “Teaching pronunciation for English as a Lingua Franca: a sociopolitical perspective”. 2005. In C. Gnutzmann, & F. Intemann (Eds.), The Globalisation of English and the English Language Classroom (pp. 145-158). Göttingen, Germany; Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr. Kelly, Gerald. How to Teach Pronunciation. Pearson Education Limited, 2002. Levis, John M. “Cinderella No More: Leaving Victimhood Behind”. Speak Out! - Journal of the IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group, Issue 60, Feb. 2019, pp. 7-14. Levis, John M., and Anne Wichmann. “English Intonation - Form and Meaning”. The Handbook of English Pronunciation, 2015, pp. 139–156., doi:10.1002/9781118346952.ch8. Levis, John M., and Shannon McCrocklin. “Effective and reflective teaching of pronunciation”. Issues in Syllabus Design, Koninklijke Brill NV, Linden, 2018, pp. 77-89 doi:10.1163/9789004380882_007 Munro, Murray J., and Tracey M. Derwing. “Intelligibility in Research and Practice.” The Handbook of English Pronunciation, 2015, pp. 375–396., doi:10.1002/9781118346952.ch21. Reed, Marnie, and Christina Michaud. “Intonation in Research and Practice: The Importance of Metacognition.” The Handbook of English Pronunciation, 2015, pp. 454–470., doi:10.1002/9781118346952.ch25. Underhill, Adrian. Sound Foundations: Learning and Teaching Pronunciation. Macmillan, 2005. Walker, Robin. “Accent, accommodation and intelligibility in ELF”. Modern English Teacher. 26 (4), 2017a. Walker, Robin. “From being intelligible to being themselves: pronunciation for today”. Modern English Teacher. 28 (3) 64-67, 2017b. Walker, Robin. “International Intelligibility” English Teaching Professional, 21, 2001, pp. 10-13. Wells, John C. English Intonation - An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Wells, John C. “Goals in Teaching English Pronunciation” English Pronunciation Models: A Changing Scene, 2005.

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