Claire Bradin Siskin, TESOL & CALL Practitioner "Pronunciation Made Easy represents an ingenious method of helping Portuguese speakers to pronounce English correctly. It does this by associating sounds that are already familiar to them in words written in Portuguese, their native language. Since they already know how to pronounce the Portuguese words perfectly, they can easily transfer this skill to pronouncing English words perfectly. I highly recommend this book for all Portuguese learners of English." |
Rita Baker, Director of Training Development at Lydbury English Centre "As a teacher Teresa has dared to strike out on her own, beyond the conventional, in order to find ways to help her students achieve the best possible results... Not surprisingly, as an independent thinker she has come up with her own innovative teaching approaches, including her amazing dictionary." |
Vasco Teixeira, Porto Editora
"Dei uma vista de olhos à amostra do seu trabalho que considero interessante. Com efeito, ele será útil a alunos e a professores". |
Fernando Frederico, Professor
"O dicionário está muito interessante. É uma excelente ferramenta para quem tenha dúvidas na oralidade inglesa e ainda mais para quem tenha a missão de ensinar inglês a portugueses; e acho que a sua compra até poderá ser aconselhada aos alunos." |
Maria João Amaral, English Teacher & Director of the Lamego Senior University, Portugal
"My current students, senior learners... reacted very well to Teresa's presentation of the Pron Made Easy strategy and later when discussing with them what they thought of it, they wished they had had such a practical teacher at school. Someone, who instead of imposing incomprehensible symbols to oung learners, had devised a logical system to help them say the words correctly. Opinions registered in class:
I think the Pron Made Easy strategy, if used from the very beginning with young learners, can be very useful for them to pronounce the English words correctly. With seniors even more so because if they can’t remember the phonetic alphabet, they tend to use Portuguese mixed up with English. So, let them do it with advantage in pronunciation." |