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Two exciting PronSIG opportunities are open now for IATEFL Conference 2027 IN Birmingham!

Are you ready to share your ideas, grow professionally, and take your work in pronunciation teaching further?
This is your chance to apply for a PronSIG award or scholarship and be part of a community that celebrates innovation, research, and practical classroom impact in ELT pronunciation.

Whether you have a brilliant pronunciation activity, worksheet, or classroom game to share, or you want to explore a new idea through classroom research, PronSIG has an opportunity for you.

If you are passionate about teaching pronunciation, pronunciation materials, classroom practice, teacher development, or research in ELT, this carousel is for you.

🔗 For full details, visit the PronSIG website - link :
https://pronsig.iatefl.org/scholarship2027/
https://pronsig.iatefl.org/award2027/
📩 Choose the opportunity that fits you best
⏰ Apply by 17 June 2026
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Free PronSIG webinar alert!

Join us on Saturday 20 June 2026 at 1:00 pm UK time for ’s new free webinar:
“Fostering Prosodic Competence in EFL Learners through an Escape Game: Exploring Standard Trinidadian and Tobagonian English”with Frank Bardol and Jo-Anne Ferreira.

If you are an English teacher, teacher trainer, or ELT professional interested in pronunciation teaching, this is a session you will not want to miss.

This webinar explores prosodic competence and shows how an innovative escape game can help learners build awareness of rhythm, stress, and intonation in engaging, practical ways. 🗣️✨

Why should you register?
You will come away with fresh ideas you can use in your own teaching. Based on an action research study with Master’s students at the University of the Antilles, this session tackles one of the most challenging areas in ELT pronunciation: helping learners develop prosody in meaningful and interactive ways.

And best of all? It’s completely free to attend.

📣 If you care about pronunciation in ELT, teaching intonation, teaching stress and rhythm, or helping learners develop greater spoken confidence, this webinar is for you.

✅ Register now and save your place — link https://pronsig.iatefl.org/fostering-prosodic-competence/
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🎙️ New episode alert: IATEFL PronSIG Podcast – Episode 5 is out now!

In this powerful new PronSIG podcast episode, Mike Budden has an inspiring conversation with Heather Hansen, well known for challenging accent bias, questioning native-speaker norms, and advocating for greater respect for accent diversity in English.
Heather’s ideas have already sparked important conversations through her TED Talk, “How to speak bad English perfectly”, and in this episode she takes the discussion even further.
She explores the complex reality of pronunciation teaching, intelligibility, identity, privilege, and what it really means to support learners in a world where accent bias still exists.

🎧 Why should you listen? Here are 3 big reasons:
1. this episode will challenge assumptions, deepen your thinking, and help you reflect on the choices we make as teachers, trainers, and language professionals.
2. Iit is the kind of conversation that can shift perspectives and open up richer, more informed discussions about ELT pronunciation, learner identity, and real-world communication.
3. it reflects on how to help learners be understood, respected, and empowered

A huge thank you to Heather Hansen .hansen for such a thoughtful, honest, and compelling conversation.

🎧 Listen now on your favourite podcast platform, save this post for later, and share it with colleagues who care about pronunciation, equity, and English language teaching.

Is your best teaching idea still sitting in your files? 📂

PronSIG’s 2027 Materials & Activities Award invites teachers to share pronunciation activities that inspire learners across ages.

Your classroom idea could reach teachers worldwide. 🌍

📅 Deadline: 17 June 2026
🔗 Learn more: pronsig.iatefl.org/award2027/

The conversation doesn’t end here. 💭 Thank you for joining us as we explored pronunciation, nativeness, identity, and intelligibility with Rias van den Doel.

Swipe through → revisit key reflections and moments from the webinar. 🎙️

What if the next big insight in pronunciation teaching starts in your classroom? 💭🎙️

The 2027 IATEFL PronSIG Action Research Scholarship is now open — supporting teachers to turn classroom curiosity into meaningful research.

📅 Deadline: 17 June 2026
Check out the details here 👇
pronsig.iatefl.org/scholarship2027