An introduction to prosody in the EFL classroom

Abstract

This project started as a need of covering an aspect of the English language which was missing in the EFL classroom in Secondary school. Teaching prosody is important and necessary in order to develop a good communicative competence since stress and intonation convey meaning. After an observation of the class and the aspects taught, pronunciation appeared to be neglected. Therefore, the creation of a Didactic Unit dealing with prosody was created and implemented in order to show students its importance in real language and real communication. The results show that the students understood its relevance and were capable of producing and they are willing to improve.