Noises and Colors
Two Untraditional Methods of Teaching ESL/ EFL Pronunciation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21805183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raafat Gabriel (0000-0001-5172-5747, American University of the Middle East, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 882-892 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language Teaching and Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1798-4769 • E-ISSN: 2053-0684 |
| Publisher | Academy Publication (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17507/jltr.1404.04 |
| OpenAlex | W4382795653 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This article is based on a professional development session or presentation that the author gave in a regional TESOL affiliate conference, and it discusses the importance of teaching, why ESL/ EFL teachers should teach pronunciation, the reasons they generally give for avoiding it and how we can integrate it into our curriculum. The author sheds light on SLA, Second Language Acquisition, research especially studies that are related to connectionism or the noticeability hypothesis and their connection to teaching and practicing pronunciation in the ESL/EFL classroom. The article focuses on not only teaching segmental aspects of English pronunciation such as vowel phonemes but underscores suprasegmental features such as thought groups/chunking and word/phrase stress because they shape rhythm in English, which is key to intelligibility. The author also suggests using two effective and tested techniques in teaching pronunciation to a variety of ESL/EFL learners and provides samples of classroom activities that could be easily implemented in teaching pronunciation together with vocabulary. The article concludes with reviewing some studies conducted quite recently about one of these two suggested approaches to see how effective this approach is
Linguistics · Mathematics education · Natural language processing · Phrase · Pronunciation · Vocabulary · Computer Science · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Second Language Acquisition
The Relationship Between L1 Fluency and L2 Fluency Development
An Eye for Words
Critical Evidence
Perceiving Vowels in a Second Language
Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Effective Foreign Language Teaching
The range of English spelling
Arabic Phonology
Linguistics, Spelling, and Pronunciation
Directing Attention to Pronunciation in the Second Language Classroom
| Highly cited | No |
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