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Teaching American English Pronunciation
A textbook and reference manual on teaching the pronunciation of North American English, written specifically for...
Taschenbuch von Peter Avery (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
As an ESL teacher, have you looked at the phonetics textbooks on the market and decided that they don't directly address your needs? Unlike pronunciation books aimed at students of linguistics or at learners of English, Teaching American English Pronunciation has been written specifically for ESL teachers. It doesn't only give academic descriptions, but also helps you to improve your students' pronunciation effectively.
As an ESL teacher, have you looked at the phonetics textbooks on the market and decided that they don't directly address your needs? Unlike pronunciation books aimed at students of linguistics or at learners of English, Teaching American English Pronunciation has been written specifically for ESL teachers. It doesn't only give academic descriptions, but also helps you to improve your students' pronunciation effectively.
Zusammenfassung
Suitable for both trainee ESL teachers on Master's TESOL courses and for new and experienced practising teachers
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
Fachbereich: Didaktik/Methodik/Schulpädagogik/Fachdidaktik
Genre: Erziehung & Bildung
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Titelzusatz: A textbook and reference manual on teaching the pronunciation of North American English, written specifically for teachers of English as a second Language (ESL)
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780194328159
ISBN-10: 0194328155
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Avery, Peter
Ehrlich, Susan
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 247 x 167 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Avery (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.1992
Gewicht: 0,456 kg
Artikel-ID: 102384350
Zusammenfassung
Suitable for both trainee ESL teachers on Master's TESOL courses and for new and experienced practising teachers
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
Fachbereich: Didaktik/Methodik/Schulpädagogik/Fachdidaktik
Genre: Erziehung & Bildung
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Titelzusatz: A textbook and reference manual on teaching the pronunciation of North American English, written specifically for teachers of English as a second Language (ESL)
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780194328159
ISBN-10: 0194328155
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Avery, Peter
Ehrlich, Susan
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 247 x 167 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Avery (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.1992
Gewicht: 0,456 kg
Artikel-ID: 102384350
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