Review of the Phonetic Workshop held in Karachi

Dawn conducted its annual Phonetics Workshop in collaboration with Oxford University Press on May 20th and 21st at the OUP Auditorium inKarachi. The workshop was conducted as part of the Dawn in Education program and was a follow up to the previous Phonetics Workshops, raising the difficulty level this year by a notch. The workshop was conducted by Muhammad Ali Khan, Sr Instructor & Coordinator of the Professional Link Committee at the Centre of English Language, Aga Khan University, Karachi. He is a doctoral researcher at the department of Linguistics and English language Lancaster University, UK. He is also working as a researcher on the project “Language on the Move” run by Professor Ingrid Piller and Dr. Kimie Takahashi of Macquarie university, Australia.

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