The Sound of Language: The Don’t-know, the Rarely-thought-of, and the Missed Opportunities in Foreign Language Teaching

Link to the Zoom meeting:

https://hkbu.zoom.us/j/91540031416

Meeting ID: 915 4003 1416

The field of second/foreign language (L2/FL) teaching and learning has seen significant advancements in recent decades. Yet, unearthing knowledge often leads to the creation of more questions. To date, many FL educators and learners (and scholars) do not seem to pay much attention to the fundamentality of sound in language teaching and learning. The issues to be discussed, in a way, can be summarized as Do-Re-Mi: The Don’t-know, the Rarely-thought-of (‘Ra’ pronounced as /re/), and the Missed opportunities in FL teaching and learning. These correspond respectively to important questions that are as yet unaddressed, significant topics of which some FL stakeholders are unaware, and promising channels or acts that are still underutilized. In this talk, I will discuss the potential value of sound and associated constructs (e.g. spoken input; listening) in multiple facets of language learning. As clichéd as…