PTLC is organised by the SIPhTrA project. We hope that it will become a regular biennial event.

• Conference Dates: Wed 14 and Thu 15 April 1999
• Place: University College London
• Participants: 48 from 14 countries
• Proceedings: to be published Jul/Aug 1999

In future years PTLC will be dealing with descriptive and acoustic phonetics for:

• students of linguistics
• speech and language therapy
• speech technology
• modern languages and EFL
• actors and singers

An idea of the sorts of topics we will be interested in can be gained from the following list:

• teaching and learning materials and techniques
• web-based learning and interactive CD-ROMs
• practical phonetics training techniques
• phonetics curriculum issues
• demonstrations of teaching and learning technology
• issues in the assessment of practical phonetic ability
• speech pattern displays for teaching phonetics