Suprasegmental features and their classroom application in pronunciation instruction

This Report examines the importance of suprasegmentals and how one might teach them. I demonstrate, through the readings of experts in the field, the close relationship between suprasegmental features and intelligibility, which I support with a review of research literature as the goal of instructi...

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Main Author: Childs, Jacob Auburn
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/19921
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topic Suprasegmentals
Prosody
Pronunciation
spellingShingle Suprasegmentals
Prosody
Pronunciation
Childs, Jacob Auburn
Suprasegmental features and their classroom application in pronunciation instruction
description This Report examines the importance of suprasegmentals and how one might teach them. I demonstrate, through the readings of experts in the field, the close relationship between suprasegmental features and intelligibility, which I support with a review of research literature as the goal of instruction. Pronunciation and suprasegmental research in pedagogy is analyzed and discussed, and teacher and learner beliefs are compared with current research-backed conclusions. Finally, this Report provides the readers with sample lessons on nuclear stress to demonstrate how to incorporate a five-step pronunciation framework into a classroom or tutoring setting. === text
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title Suprasegmental features and their classroom application in pronunciation instruction
title_short Suprasegmental features and their classroom application in pronunciation instruction
title_full Suprasegmental features and their classroom application in pronunciation instruction
title_fullStr Suprasegmental features and their classroom application in pronunciation instruction
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