This article describes a program at the University of Nancy, for the teaching of introductory phonetic transcription to beginning students majoring in English. The alphabet chosen for this program, the English Pronouncing Dictionary Alphabet, lends itself particularly to use with beginners. Introduction to this alphabet takes place in ten sessions in the language laboratory in which the student learns the correspondence between phonetic symbol and sound via dictation. This is followed by a series of exercises for phonetic alphabet practice, which consist of texts written in transcription (cultural texts, fill-in-the-blanks, crossword puzzles, limericks, phonemic twisters, etc.) and which are carried out orally by groups of five students supervised by a British instructor. Sample exercises are appended. (AM)