Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2021]
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (410 pages)
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Disciplina |
421.52
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Collana |
AILA Applied Linguistics Series
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Soggetto topico |
English language - Pronunciation
English language - Pronunciation by foreign speakers
English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
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Soggetto genere / forma |
Essays.
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ISBN |
90-272-5907-0
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- English Pronunciation Instruction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Advancing towards research-informed pronunciation pedagogy -- Introduction -- In search of the intersection between research and practice -- Structure of the volume -- Intended readership -- References -- Part I. Linking research and practice -- Chapter 2. Connecting the dots between pronunciation research and practice -- Background -- Ongoing concerns about pedagogical implications -- Why researchers and teachers have trouble communicating -- Other differences between teachers and researchers -- Where research can inform teaching -- What teachers would find helpful -- What researchers would find helpful -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. When a psycholinguist enters the multilingual classroom: Bridging the gap between psycholinguistics and pronunciation teaching -- Introduction -- The multilingual classroom -- Differences between L2 and L3 learners in pronunciation acquisition -- Psycholinguistic accounts of L3/Ln pronunciation acquisition -- Teaching L3/Ln pronunciation: Extensions and challenges -- Pedagogical recommendations for L3/Ln pronunciation -- Calls for action -- Calls for teachers -- Calls for researchers -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Surveying beliefs, attitudes and classroom practices -- Chapter 4. Teaching English pronunciation in Croatian elementary schools: Views and practices -- Introduction -- Teaching pronunciation -- The research study -- Aim and research questions -- Participants -- Instrument -- Procedure -- Results and analysis -- Attitudes to pronunciation -- Teacher training -- Textbook materials -- Teaching practices and addressing pronunciation difficulties -- Discussion of results and key findings.
Pedagogical implications -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A. Questionnaire about the pronunciation and teaching practices of Croatian and English: Teacher's questionnaire -- Appendix B. Questionnaire about the pronunciation and teaching practices of croatian and English: Learner's questionnaire -- Chapter 5. Cause for optimism: Non-native pre-service teacher's attitudes towards and beliefs about accent -- Introduction and theoretical framework -- Attitudes towards English accents in the local educational contex -- Self-report perspective on accentedness -- Research aims -- Research methodology -- Data collection -- Participants -- Results and analyses -- General view on English teachers -- Current experience with university lecturers -- Imagined teacher identity -- Correlational analysis -- Discussion -- Pedagogical implications -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A. Accent attitudes questionnaire -- Appendix B. Prompts for an awareness-raising activity -- Chapter 6. Summative and formative pronunciation assessment in Polish secondary schools: The students' perspective -- Introduction -- Summative and formative assessment -- Pronunciation assessment in the FL classroom -- Method -- Research questions -- Participants -- Instrument -- Data-gathering and analysis procedures -- Results: Presentation and discussion -- Quantitative data: Frequency of SA and FA of pronunciation -- Quantitative data: Task types used for SA/FA and pronunciation aspects assessed by SA/FA -- Qualitative data -- Pedagogical implications -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix. Questionnaire for students - assessment in secondary school -- Thank you for joining the study! -- Chapter 7. Pronunciation learning strategies: A task-based perspective -- Introduction -- Previous research on pronunciation learning strategies -- The current study.
Research questions -- Participants -- Stimulus materials -- Instruments -- Procedure -- Results and analysis -- Task 1 results: Vowel identification -- Task 2 results: IPA-to-orthography -- Task 3 results: Vowel matching -- Task 4 results: Minimal pair matching and providing vowel symbols -- Task 5 results: Identifying letters representing vowels and diphthongs -- Task 6 results: Identifying schwa in a simple text -- Discussion and key findings -- Pedagogical implications -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III. Using corpora to inform instruction -- Chapter 8. The intonation contour of non-finality revisited: Implications for EFL teaching -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework and previous research -- The functions of intonation contours -- Rising contours and speaking styles -- Hypothesis and possible pedagogical implications -- Corpus and method -- Corpus -- Method -- Results and discussion -- Tonal distribution in the corpus -- Results per speaker -- Pedagogical implications -- The visualisation of prosody -- The map task as a support for authentic oral production -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix. Four texts of the EUROM1 corpus recorded for the ANGLISH corpus -- Chapter 9. Rationale and design of a study of foreign accented academic English -- Introduction -- Context -- European EMI: Speakers and listeners -- Complex learning, cognitive load, and accentedness -- Prosody and comprehensibility -- Language transfer and its impact -- IP-CAFES project -- Research questions and hypotheses -- Collecting the corpus recordings -- Selecting and creating the stimuli -- Creating and administering the perception tests -- Using qualitative and quantitative data -- Pedagogical implications -- Course content and format -- Speaker training -- Listener training -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A. Read-aloud text.
Appendix B. IP-CAFES Listener questionnaire -- Chapter 10. Corrective feedback and unintelligibility: Do they work in tandem during tandem interactions? -- Introduction -- Background -- Methodology -- The SITAF tandem corpus -- Identifying corrective feedback instances -- Identifying miscommunication instances -- Results and analysis -- Corrective feedback instances -- Miscommunication instances -- Discussion -- Pedagogical implications -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix. Post-recording questionnaires -- Part IV. Investigating learners' output -- Chapter 11. Acquisition of English onset consonant clusters by L1 Chinese speakers -- Introduction -- The present study -- The acquisition of English syllable structure by L1 Chinese speakers -- Research questions -- Research methodology -- Stimulus materials -- Participants -- Procedure -- Data analysis and results -- Discussion of results and key findings -- Pedagogical implications -- Phase 1. Familiarisation with initial consonant clusters -- Phase 2. Contrasting and discrimination of initial consonant clusters -- Phase 3. Follow-up practice -- Conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1. Stimuli -- Chapter 12. Vowel reduction in English grammatical words by Macedonian EFL learners -- Introduction -- Previous research studies on vowel reduction -- The current study -- Research questions -- Research methodology -- Participants -- Stimuli -- Procedure -- Data analysis -- Frequency of weak form use -- Weak form use across proficiency levels -- Weak forms use across word categories -- Weak forms use across trained and untrained groups -- Frequency of weak forms use across strong vowels -- Discussion -- Pedagogical implications -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A. Stimulus materials and tasks for data collection.
Appendix B. Handout for raters to select the pronunciation variant they hear -- Appendix C. Strong and weak forms of grammatical words used as target words -- Part V. Exploring tools and techniques -- Chapter 13. Integrating prosodic features in a children's English course -- Introduction -- Prosodic features of English and Czech -- Young learners and language teaching -- Research objectives and hypotheses -- Method -- Participants -- English lessons -- Example of a typical lesson -- Materials and recording -- Analyses -- Results and discussion -- General discussion -- Limitations -- Pedagogical implications -- Conclusion -- Funding -- References -- Appendix. Recording texts -- Chapter 14. Differential effects of lexical and non-lexical high-variability phonetic training on the production of L2 vowels -- Introduction -- Conditions in HVPT -- Methods -- Participants -- Materials -- Phonetic training -- Testing -- Procedures -- Data analysis -- Results -- Generalisation effects -- Training group effects -- Discussion -- Pedagogical implications -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A. Stimuli -- Appendix B. Parameter estimates -- Chapter 15. Mobile apps for pronunciation training: Exploring learner engagement and retention -- Introduction -- Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) -- Computer vs. mobile -- Mobile (pronunciation) apps and affordances -- Mobile-Assisted Pronunciation Training (MAPT) -- Mobile app engagement and retention -- The present study -- Method -- Course description -- Participants -- Instruments -- Procedure -- Data analysis -- RQ1: Importance of MAPT for learners -- RQ2: App engagement and retention by learners -- Discussion -- Pedagogical implications -- Limitations -- Conclusion -- References -- Apps -- Index.
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