Just back from a fantastic few days in Salt Lake City, participating in PSLLT: Our (with Heather Bliss) pre-conference workshop Visualizing speech in the classroom using interactive ultrasound imaging generated a lot of excitement, and my talk Teaching L1 articulatory strategies to L2 speakers: The role of phonetics in pronunciation instruction was really well received!

Congratulations also to Tess Nolan for a great presentation on The role of acoustic analysis in second language learning, focused on documenting the phonetic variation of Lekwungen vowels as a first step in teaching L2 learners to perceive and produce them.

PSLLT does an amazing part of bringing together linguists, applied linguists, and language teachers in a supportive, inclusive environment – creating such a great opportunity to learn from each other. Thanks so much to the organizers and volunteers, I’m already looking forward to next year!