Peter Avery, Susan Ehrlich

Teaching American English Pronunciation

A textbook and reference manual on teaching the pronunciation of North American English, written specifically for teachers of English as a second Language (ESL)

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Produktbeschreibung

A complete introduction to teaching the pronunciation of North American English specifically for teachers of English as a second language (ESL)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 167mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780194328159
• ISBN-10: 0194328155
• Artikelnr.: 22143585

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction: Preliminary considerations in the teaching of
pronunciation
* - Biological factors
* - Socio-cultural factors
* - Personality factors
* - The role of the native language
* - Setting realistic goals
* PART ONE: The sound system of English
* 1: Spelling and pronunciation
* - The English spelling system
* - Sound-spelling correspondences
* - Spelling in other languages
* - The phonetic alphabet
* - Exercises
* 2: Individual sounds of English
* - How speech sounds are made
* - Consonants and vowels
* The description of English consonants
* - Place of articulation
* - Manner of articulation
* - Voicing
* - Summary
* The description of English vowels
* - Tongue height
* - Frontness/backness of tongue
* - Tenseness/laxness
* - Lip rounding
* - Phonetic symbols for vowels
* - Complex vowels (dipthongs)
* - The vowel /ar/
* - The consonant /h/
* - Semi-vowels (glides)
* - Exercises
* 3: English sounds in context
* Positional variation
* - Contrastive sounds of English
* - Non-contrastive sounds of English
* - Implications for teaching
* - Conclusion
* Grammatical endings
* - The regular past tense
* - The plural, possessive, and third person singular
* - Grammatical endings in the pronunciation classroom
* - Exercises
* 4: The shape of English words
* - Syllable types
* - Consonant clusters
* - Exercises
* 5: Word stress and vowel reduction
* - What is stress?
* - Schwa
* - Major and minor stress
* - Placement of word stress
* - Exercises
* 6: Connected Speech
* Rhythm, sentence stress, and intonation
* - The stress-timed rhythm of English
* - Placement of stress in sentences
* - Intonation
* Modifications of sounds in connected speech
* - The pronunciation of function words
* - Linking
* - Deletion of consonants
* - Assimilation
* - Summary
* - Exercises
* PART TWO: The identification and correction of specific pronunciation
problems
* Introduction
* 7: Common pronunciation problems
* - English vowels
* - English consonants
* - Stress, rhythm, and intonation
* 8: Problems of selected language groups
* - Arabic
* - Chinese
* - Farsi
* - French
* - German
* - Greek
* - Hindi and Punjabi
* - Italian
* - Japanese
* - Korean
* - Polish
* - Portuguese
* - Spanish
* - Vietnamese
* PART THREE: Classroom activities
* Introduction
* 9: A communicative approach to pronunciation teaching
* - Introduction
* - Consonants and vowels
* - Connected speech
* - Suprasegmentals
* - Monitoring
* - Conclusion
* 10: Pronunciation syllabus design: a question of focus
* - The zoom principle
* - Assessing learner variables
* - Collection of speech samples
* - Diagnosis of speech samples
* - From diagnosis to syllabus design
* - Monitoring progress
* - Appendix: Student diagnostic profile
* 11: Suprasegmentals in the pronunciation class: setting priorities
* - Introduction
* - Stress/unstress
* - Stress and rhythm
* - Major sentence stress
* - Intonation
* - Linking and pausing
* - Palatalization
* - Conclusion
* 12: Pronunciation-based listening exercises for the multi-level class
* - Introduction
* - Minimal pairs
* - Stress assignment
* - Function words
* - Intonation
* - Conclusion
* 13: Teaching pronunciation: an inventory of techniques
* - Introduction
* Individual sounds
* - Minimal pairs
* - Visual aids
* - Stress, rhythm, and intonation
* - Developing fluency
* - Conclusion
* 14: Developing self-correcting and self-monitoring strategies
* - Introduction
* - Self-correction
* - Self-monitoring
* - Conclusion
* 15: Developing natural and confident speech:
* - Drama techniques in the pronunciation class
* - Introduction
* - Articulation
* - Pitch, volume, and rate
* - Variety
* - Conclusion
* 16: Unintelligibility and the ESL learner
* - Introduction
* - The receiver
* - The sender
* - Conclusion
* Glossary
* Further reading
* Bibliography
* Contributors
* Index