Speech in Action – List of Publications

The Speech in Action List

Retired Publications

	Title	Status	Brief Description
1	Motormouth	Retired. Demo version available on old computer. More here.	A recording concordancer which enables coursebook authors materials writers to stay in touch with the original recordings. Searchable text transcript is hyperlinked to the original recording. Ready for demonstration. This was my machine tool for authoring the prize-winning ‘Streaming Speech’.
2	Streaming Speech: Listening and Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English UK and Ireland	Retired (2003-2010) Now ‘out of print’. More here.	Electronic Publication First a CD-ROM then a web service. It existed in both British English and American English versions. The British version was accompanied by a Student’s Book. The British English version won an ELTON in 2004.
3	Streaming Speech: Listening and Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English US & Canada	Retired (2004-2010) Now ‘out of print’. More here.	A US and Canadian version of no. 2.
4	Accents of UK	Retired (2006-2010) Now ‘out of print’. More here.	10 Accents from around the UK and Ireland. Spontaneous speech recordings with extracts in both regional accent and in standard British English. Listening comprehension exercises, followed by examples of key features of the accents.
5	Accents of USA & Canada	Retired (2006-2010) Now ‘out of print’. More here.	8 Accents around the USA and Canada. Spontaneous speech recordings with extracts in both regional accent and in standard British English. Listening comprehension exercises, followed by examples of key features of the accents.
6	Dictations	Incomplete publication intended to be part of online service, but never completed. More here.	Dictations was to join the Streaming Speech family, but it was never completed. Ten chapters in five pairs: Hobbies, Vacation Jobs, Cities, Education and Holidays. A British English and US English chapter in each pair. Students would answer simple listening comprehension questions, do transcribing (dictation-style) of some of the fastest, most demanding stretches of speech.
7	Cool Speech: Hot Listening Cool Pronunciation iPad app	Retired (2012-2017) Now ‘out of print’ More here.	Electronic Publication. An app for iPad. (Only iPad) It won an ELTON for Digital Innovation in 2014.

The Speech in Action List

Current and Future Publications

Title

Status

Brief Description

Phonology for Listening: Teaching the Stream of Speech

Printed book and ePub

[Applied linguistics, Teacher Trainers, teachers of English in training]

Current.

In print

More here.

Printed book, and ePub.

Shortlisted for three prizes: ESU Prize, ELTON 2014, Ben Warren Memorial Prize.

A publication which complements Peter Roach’s English Phonetics and Phonology for all teachers of English, and sits alongside John Field’s Listening in the Language Classroom. Essential reading for all teachers of English, both those in practice and those in training.

A Syllabus for Listening -Decoding

[Teachers and coursebook authors]

Current.

In print

More here.

Printed book, eBook. Shortlisted for two prizes: ESU 2018, and ELTONS 2019.

Provides an alternative to the listening comprehension method in teaching listening by providing items to teach.

Jungle Listening: Survival tips for Fast Speech.

[Classroom materials]

Future publication.

Ten units of pilot version available here.

Ten units are available. (Final version will have 30). Downloadable pdfs of student’s book and teacher’s guide and soundfiles. There are two versions: one simple, the other ‘enhanced’ which uses AudioNotetaker from Sonocent.

Limericks for Pronunciation and Listening

[Intermediate Teenage Learners with mobile devices]

Future publication.

Design and proposal ready.

More here

This publication takes minimal pairs (& trios) of vowels and consonants into fun (clean) limericks which will enable people on the move to practice their pronunciation on a small screen. Mobile device content. This link has more:

http://limericks4pronunciation.blogspot.com/2007/06/prontogo-limericks-to-remember.html

Listen Up

Questions and Answers

Intensive listening for Intermediate Students

Future publication.

Design and proposal ready.

More here.

A proposal for a tablet application. Focuses on familiar words, familiar topics, familiar grammar, but with very fast speech.

CEFR B1/B2 level

Listening (Decoding) In Use

Three levels

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced.

Future publication.

Design in progress.

More here.

Uses the Greenhouse/Garden/Jungle metaphor to illustrate and practise the streamlining effects that happen to sounds, syllables and words when used in the normal speeds of spontaneous speech. For example, consonant death: ‘d’ drops from ‘middle’ in ‘IN the middle of the ROAD’ and becomes ‘mill’.

Lost: What to say when words don’t come quickly.

[Intermediate/Advanced learners, teenagers, adults of all ages]

Future publication.

Idea stage.

More here.

This publication teaches the whole range of acceptable filled pause devices, repetitions, and prosodic fillers (erm, that kind of thing, you you you, you know, and stuff like that). Proposal in preparation.