LECTURE 9 TEACHING PRONUNCIATION
Reasong for teaching pronunciation:
Goals/objectives of pronunciation teaching:
In the past – native-like pronunciation.
Only few learners possess the ability to achieve native-like pronunciation.
Nowadays L2 learners should aim for
“We are now at a point where most L2 teachers recognize that there is nothing wrong with having an
accent, and that intelligibility and comprehensibility should be the goals of L2 speakers, not nativelike status” Gilakjani (2012, p. 6-7).
Ways of teaching pronunciation:
Phases of pronunciation teaching
What to teach when teaching pronunciation?
Historically – emphasis on segments
After 1970s – communicative approach – the stress shifted from accuracy onto communication
Thus, most of the teaching focused on prosody.
Nowadays,
What are segmentals and suprasegmentals?
Unfortunately, teachers nowadays still pay far more attention to grammar and vocab than to
pronunciation.
CEFR
Pronunciation assessment – analytical scale
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