Overview

The basic principles and terminology of this important, but sometimes neglected, area are explained in this book. Pronunciation helps teachers to understand and evaluate the materials available to them, and so approach the teaching of pronunciation with more confidence. The book includes over 120 classroom projects which readers can use to develop their pronunciation teaching.

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Author:   Christiane Dalton ,  Barbara Seidlhofer ,  C. N. Candlin ,  H. G. Widdowson
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780194371971

ISBN 10:   0194371972
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   26 January 1995
Audience:   ELT/ESL ,  ELT General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

The authors and series editors Introduction Section One: Explanation 1: The significance of pronunciation 1.1 Pronunciation and identity 1.2 Pronunciation and intelligibility 2: The nature of speech sounds 2.1 Sounds in the body 2.2 Sounds in the mind 3: Connected speech 3.1 Stringing sounds together 3.2 Sound simplifications 4: Stress 4.1 The nature of stress 4.2 The syllable 4.3 Word-stress 4.4 Stress and rhythm 5: Intonation 5.1 The nature of intonation 5.2 The nature of discourse 5.3 Intonation in discourse Section Two: Demonstration 6: Pronunciation teaching 6.1 Relevance 6.2 Approaches to teaching 6.3 Teachability-learnability 7: Focus on intonation 7.1 Intonation teaching: important but (too) difficult? 7.2 Ways into intonation 7.3 Foregrounding 7.4 New information and common ground 7.5 Managing conversation 7.6 Roles, status, and involvement 8: Focus on stress 8.1 Identifying and producing stressed syllables 8.2 Prediction skills for word-stress 8.3 The mystery of stress-time 8.4 Unstress and weak forms 9: Focus on connected speech 9.1 Teaching for perception or teaching for production? 9.2 Assimilation, elision, and linking 10: Focus on sounds 10.1 Ear training and awareness building 10.2 The fundamental problem: communicating vs. noticing 10.3 Innocence vs. sophistication 10.4 Articulatory settings 10.5 Individual sounds 10.6 Conclusion Section Three: Exploration 11: Exploring pronunciation in your own classroom Appendix - List of symbols/conventions Glossary Further reading Bibliography

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