A Pronunciation Coaching Experience

A High Impact Skills Workshop for ESOL Teachers

Pronunciation Gold is one of Blue Noun’s high-impact language sessions.

These are carefully designed interventions that sit within our English holidays, helping guests make meaningful progress in a specific area of language. They aren’t separate from the holiday experience—they’re woven into it.

Some people think that if we pause to enjoy views and trees, that’s all we do, but we are more academically robust than that.

We include high-impact skills workshops in most of our holidays because we have created an environment where effective language work can land and because we introduce them with curiosity.

Most of these sessions are private, created around the needs of the guest taking the holiday.

This one is different.

The guest joining us this week is an English teacher. Rather than arranging a private pronunciation session, we decided to build something bigger: a workshop that combines expert pronunciation coaching with voice, creativity and boldness.

We’re also opening this session to a small number of fellow English teachers and coaches.
Join us if you want to rethink teaching pronunciation to your students. 

A Quick Introduction to a New Way of Language Learning

Blue Noun exists because, for many people, language learning has felt rushed and uncomfortable for years.

People carry that feeling into real-life conversations. They begin to rush themselves. They answer before they’ve had time to think. They become wary of experimenting.

They never take risks with their English because risking feels so alarming.

It’s a problem across all language learning, but especially in pronunciation work. 

Pronunciation work needs you to be willing to be vulnerable.

A Blue Noun ‘Bridge’

Bridges are our expert intervention skills workshops. They have a clearly defined language skills goal.

Each bridge helps our guests get from language skills point A to point B. They give tangible results within our wider (less tangible but not unworthy) goals, including:

• People who would have stayed silent now join conversations.
• People who would have spent another year “meaning to use more English” start building English into their lives.
• People who would have felt fearful answering a phone, because it might be in English, do so unworried.

We do measure success this way because we believe reaching short-term goals doesn’t matter much without fixing deeper problems. But they certainly can be a part of the process. 

→ What Are High-Impact Language Sessions?

Pronunciation Gold

This workshop grew from a simple question.

What would happen if excellent pronunciation coaching weren’t left to work on its own?

Can we amplify its impact?

Jennie Reed is an outstanding pronunciation coach. She doesn’t need a singer-songwriter or a creative English coach to teach pronunciation well.

But at Blue Noun, we’re free to ask bigger educational questions.

What happens if pronunciation coaching is supported by other disciplines that help people become bolder while they’re learning?

What happens if we add outrageous experiments with boldness before a pronunciation lesson?

Because, as I see it, that’s the challenge with pronunciation.

Even once learners know where their tongue should go, they understand the explanation, and they can mimic the sound with a coach; it’s a different thing to trust that noise in conversation. 

JOin Us

Advanced English users and ESOL teachers, join us to strengthen your own pronunciation and discover practical techniques you can take straight back to your own learners.

Refresh your craft by being part of this one-of-a-kind experience of a different way of designing pronunciation teaching.

Only three public places are available.

Practical Information

Who is it for?

• ESOL teachers
• English language coaches
• Teacher trainers and curious educators
• Advanced English users interested in pronunciation

Date

Tuesday 14 July, 2026

Time

10:00am – 2.00pm

Location

Blue Noun Language Hub
Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland

Price

£125 per person

Lunch and refreshments included.

Grow Remarkable

If you like the sound of this workshop but can’t make this date, you may be interested in our Friday afternoon Presentation Skills Practice for Women.

This is our invitation to locals to benefit from our community-growing skills and professional language experience. It is not teaching or coaching; it is a space to speak. 

→ Presentation Skills Practice for Women

More About Blue Noun

You can learn how I personalise and plan each holiday here:

→ How We Plan Your English Holiday

This workshop is an example of the possibilities of team teaching – something I’m a bit obsessed with. Many people hear the term team teaching and feel jaded. In much of ELT, it is used as a convenience for poor-quality language academies. It can mean inconsistency and a lack of progress tracking.

Like many other parts of language education, I dismantle team teaching and ask what its individual components are, what should be chucked, and what should be kept – and how we can put them together in effective, light and interesting ways.

→ About Team Teaching at Blue Noun

Teachers. We have a variation of our language coaching holiday to offer you, in which we pick a workshop theme to develop our resources and expertise, combined with your classroom goals. 

See this example:

→ Using Creativity and Landscape in ESOL Teaching