Teaching Tips
Author: John M Levis (Iowa State University)
This teaching tip focuses on a particular technique to make dialogues into guided activities by making them less controlled and more communicative, what I call branching conversations. In branching conversations, two learners work together to have a conversation that depends on understanding and interpreting the meaning of a pronunciation feature in a conversation that is structured through an information gap. Several different branching conversations are provided in this teaching tip, including those based on intonation, prominence placement, and –teen and –ty numbers.
Keywords: pronunciation teaching, dialogues, guided activities, information gap
How to Cite: Levis, J. M. (2026) “Branching conversations ”, Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Proceedings. 16(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.21223