How to teach intonation to EFL students: A focus on communicative teaching methods.
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How to teach intonation to EFL students: A focus on communicative teaching methods.Author (s)
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2017Publisher
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MESTRE SEGARRA, María Ángeles (2017). How to teach intonation to EFL students: A focus on communicative teaching methods. Fórum de recerca, n. 22, p. 467-505Type
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Abstract
The purpose of this article is to provide an account on how to
teach pronunciation to EFL learners, with a special focus on
intonation as combined with requests. The intention of this study is
to stimulate ... [+]
The purpose of this article is to provide an account on how to
teach pronunciation to EFL learners, with a special focus on
intonation as combined with requests. The intention of this study is
to stimulate teachers to offer a focus on pronunciation in their
classrooms and thus integrate them in the syllabus. Throughout this
study, intonation is considered not as a luxury but as a necessity for
an efficient interchange in English. It also aims at highlighting the
importance of second language acquisition as ‘skill learning’.
Concepts such as communication, comprehensible input, noticing
and interaction are deeply addressed through this piece of work
since they need to be taken into account when dealing with acquiring
the language. This research provides a framework of English
intonation highlighting the most salient concepts in the field. Firstly,
the paper gathers and reviews some of the most outstanding insights
from second language acquisition, linguistics and communication.
Then, it presents and evaluates a teaching proposal composed of
several activities for the teaching of intonation with a final task for
the practicing of requests, in which seventeen students need to learn
to understand and how to formulate requests in a proper intonation
during two sessions. Finally, the study presents a series of
considerations concerning the success of the students’ specific
performance. [-]
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XXII Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials (Any 2017)
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