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The Color Vowel Chart
Introduction
Who developed the COLOR VOWEL Chart?
The COLOR VOWEL Chart was initially conceived by Karen Taylor in 1999. She made her first chart out of poster board, construction paper, and Velcro, and despite its crude form, Karen’s international teaching assistants appreciated the way it helped them to pronounce academic and technical vocabulary. Karen met Shirley Thompson in 2000.
Quickly recognizing their shared interest in pronunciation, multi-modal instruction and brain-based learning, Karen and Shirley started meeting regularly to share ideas and further develop the Color Vowel Chart.
Karen and Shirley perfected the Chart with input from hundreds of ESL students and teachers at American University, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland College Park.
The Color Vowel Chart is a pronunciation tool for teaching and learning English. This tool enables teachers and learners to talk easily and accurately about the key sounds of English without the use of phonetic symbols. Instead of phonetic symbols, the Chart uses colors and key words to represent the vowel sounds of English.
This provides students and teachers with an easy way to describe and practice spoken English at the word level and at the phrase level.
When combined with the teaching techniques outlined here, the Chart provides an effective approach to teaching spoken English. The Chart will help you easily incorporate pronunciation into all of your classes so that your students can improve their comprehension and use of spoken English.
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