Pronunciation Matters
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides independent instructional units that help overcome pronunciation difficulties
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Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Robin Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-07-05
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0194658856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is one manifestation of the changing role of English in the world today. This book and audio links explore how ELF may be relevant to teaching your students pronunciation. It draws on the Lingua Franca core, a set of pronunciation features that research has found to be essential to intelligibility in ELF communications, and explores how adopting an ELF approach can benefit students. It covers techniques and materials for teaching ELF pronunciation, including planning and assessment and the influence of learners' first language pronunciation. The audio links feature dialogues between ELF speakers from fifteen different first language backgrounds.
Second Language Pronunciation Assessment
Author: Talia Isaacs
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2016-12-22
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1783096861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is open access under a CC BY licence. It spans the areas of assessment, second language acquisition (SLA) and pronunciation and examines topical issues and challenges that relate to formal and informal assessments of second language (L2) speech in classroom, research and real-world contexts. It showcases insights from assessing other skills (e.g. listening and writing) and highlights perspectives from research in speech sciences, SLA, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, including lingua franca communication, with concrete implications for pronunciation assessment. This collection will help to establish commonalities across research areas and facilitate greater consensus about key issues, terminology and best practice in L2 pronunciation research and assessment. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, this book will appeal to a mixed audience of researchers, graduate students, teacher-educators and exam board staff with varying levels of expertise in pronunciation and assessment and wide-ranging interests in applied linguistics.
Pronunciation in EFL Instruction
Author: Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1783092610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses issues and debates at the centre of English pronunciation teaching. It offers new theoretical ideas and practical solutions to phonodidactic problems that arise in EFL contexts, approaching pronunciation instruction from global and local perspectives and supporting its theoretical claims with extensive empirical evidence.
Sound Matters
Author: Margaret E. Lee
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2018-11-06
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1532649967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSound matters. The New Testament’s first audiences were listeners, not readers. They heard its compositions read aloud and understood their messages as linear streams of sound. To understand the New Testament’s meaning in the way its earliest audiences did, we must hear its audible features and understand its words as spoken sounds. Sound Matters presents essays by ten scholars from five countries and three continents, who explore the New Testament through sound mapping, a technique invented by Margaret Lee and Bernard Scott for analyzing Greek texts as speech. Sound Matters demonstrates the value and uses of this technique as a prelude and aid to interpretation. The essays that make up this volume illustrate the wide range of interpretive possibilities that emerge when sound mapping restores the spoken sounds of the New Testament and revives its living voice. Contributors Thomas E. Boomershine Pieter J. J. Botha Jeffrey E. Brickle Nina E. Livesey Dan Nasselqvist Bernhard Oestreich Frank Scheppers Bernard Brandon Adam G. White
English-Medium Instruction and Pronunciation
Author: Karin Richter
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2019-01-11
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1788922468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers new insights into the language gains of adult learners enrolled in an English-medium instruction (EMI) degree programme. It provides longitudinal empirical evidence of the phonological gains of the learners; discusses which individual factors contribute to the changes in the learners’ pronunciation and investigates whether and to what extent increased exposure to the target language in EMI classrooms leads to incidental learning of second language pronunciation. Furthermore, it expands on the discussions surrounding the Critical Period Hypothesis, the native-speaker norm, foreign language accent and the role of English as a Lingua Franca. The comparative and longitudinal design of the research study fills a significant gap in the literature and the book offers considerable original and important research-informed insights into the fields of EMI, bilingual education and second language acquisition. As such, it is a valuable resource and must-read book for researchers, practitioners and policymakers in these areas.
Pronunciation Games
Author: Mark Hancock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-12-07
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780521467353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPronunciation Games is a photocopiable resource book for use with students of elementary to proficiency level.
Pronunciation Matters
Author: Rias van den Doel
Publisher: Vu University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789086596812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPronunciation raises many questions. Since learners of English are exposed to a bewildering variety of native and nonnative Englishes, they are challenged to reflect on the importance of accent both in their own English and in that of others. New developments in teaching and the introduction of common European standards have also prompted teachers to incorporate pronunciation training into their curricula. In this collection, contributors discuss the most recent research on pronunciation issues to provide insight into matters of teaching, testing, and the wider communicative context, ranging from business English as a Lingua Franca to English communication between the Dutch and the Chinese."
Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education
Author: Kristin Snoddon
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2021-07-12
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 180041076X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first edited international volume focused on critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education, which encompasses education in and out of schools and across the lifespan. The book provides a critical overview and snapshot of the use of sign languages in education for deaf children today and explores contemporary issues in education for deaf children such as bimodal bilingualism, translanguaging, teacher education, sign language interpreting and parent sign language learning. The research presented in this book marks a significant development in understanding deaf children's language use and provides insights into the flexibility and pragmatism of young deaf people and their families’ communicative practices. It incorporates the views of young deaf people and their parents regarding their language use that are rarely visible in the research to date.
Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation
Author: Rajiv Rao
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-24
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1317356292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKey Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation: From Description to Pedagogy is a resource that encourages Spanish teachers and curriculum designers to increase their incorporation of pronunciation into the classroom. Combining theory and practical guidance, it will help language practitioners integrate the teaching of Spanish pronunciation with confidence and effectiveness. The international group of scholars across its 15 chapters is made up of individuals with well-established research records and training in best pedagogical practices. Key features: A range of topics including vowels, various classes of consonants, prosody, the use of technology, the role of orthography, the importance of both perception and production, individual learner differences, and teacher training; Overviews of descriptive, empirical, and acquisition-based research associated with each aspect of the Spanish sound system; Guidance on the difficulties that teachers face when incorporating the teaching of pronunciation into the classroom; Clear explanations of concepts, accompanied by an abundance of concrete examples and references; Multiple sample activities and lesson plans tailored to different levels and backgrounds of students; A bilingual glossary of terms to help the content reach the widest audience possible. Written in a clear and accessible manner, Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation is an essential resource for teachers of Spanish at all levels. It is also an excellent reference book for researchers and both undergraduate and graduate university students interested in Spanish phonetics and language acquisition.
