{"id":1607,"date":"2017-08-04T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2017-08-04T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:10:15","slug":"using-photos-of-yourself-to-teach-vowel-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2017\/08\/04\/using-photos-of-yourself-to-teach-vowel-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Photos of Yourself to Teach Vowel Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Summer people. I&#8217;m procrastinating massively despite a massive marking pile and a dissertation to finish. This was something that came up as a bit of Focus on Form (reactive, explicit language work).<br \/>\nIn Japanese \/\u00e6\/ and \/\u028c\/ are basically allophonic. They are the same sound to my learners. They hear no difference. I&#8217;m too far from the original mistake through overused \/\u00e6\/ but I had problems getting my students to see the difference between the two phonemes. Having the luxury of a phone, a computer and a projector\u2026<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1260897297.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><br \/>\n\/\u028c\/<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-902040291.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><br \/>\n\/\u00e6\/<br \/>\nA gormless face is optional. This could also work for \/\u026a\/ and \/i\u02d0\/, and \/\u028a\/ and \/u\u02d0\/.<br \/>\nAnyway, just an idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Summer people. I&#8217;m procrastinating massively despite a massive marking pile and a dissertation to finish. This was something that came up as a bit of Focus on Form (reactive, explicit language work). In Japanese \/\u00e6\/ and \/\u028c\/ are basically allophonic. They are the same sound to my learners. They hear no difference. I&#8217;m too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[195,243,292,293],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-pV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}