Shaping Learners' Pronunciation
Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2022
240 pages
978-1-000-62320-8 (ISBN)
Description
A straightforward entry to understanding crucial components of phonological literacy, this essential text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. Brown and Crowther describe the basic phonemes (including consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance stress, and timing, as they are related to CS. With accessible, non-technical language, the authors show how phoneme variations, simple transitions, dropping sounds, inserting sounds, and changing sounds operate, and how CS is integral to English language teaching, especially for developing non-native users' oral English communicative ability.
Each chapter features explicit discussions of pedagogical ideas targeting L2 learners, further resources, and CS-oriented exercises that are accessible and easy to implement for L2 teachers. These exercises are accompanied when relevant with recorded audio examples of CS production at www.routledge.com/9780367697570.
Each chapter features explicit discussions of pedagogical ideas targeting L2 learners, further resources, and CS-oriented exercises that are accessible and easy to implement for L2 teachers. These exercises are accompanied when relevant with recorded audio examples of CS production at www.routledge.com/9780367697570.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ELT/ESL
Illustrations
29 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-62320-8 (9781000623208)
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James Dean Brown | Dustin Crowther
Shaping Learners' Pronunciation
Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English
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09/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
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James Dean Brown | Dustin Crowther
Shaping Learners' Pronunciation
Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English
Book
09/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
€63.30
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
James Dean Brown is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.
Dustin Crowther is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.
Dustin Crowther is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.
Content
PART A IN THE BEGINNING
Chapter 1 Where Connected Speech Fits into English Language Learning
Chapter 2 Transcribing Speech Sounds
Chapter 3 Word Stress
Chapter 4 Utterance Stress and Timing
PART B AS A RULE
Chapter 5 Phoneme Variations
Chapter 6 Simple Transitions
Chapter 7 Dropping Sounds
Chapter 8 Inserting Sounds
Chapter 9 Changing Sounds
Chapter 10 Connected Speech Combines Multiple Processes
Chapter 1 Where Connected Speech Fits into English Language Learning
Chapter 2 Transcribing Speech Sounds
Chapter 3 Word Stress
Chapter 4 Utterance Stress and Timing
PART B AS A RULE
Chapter 5 Phoneme Variations
Chapter 6 Simple Transitions
Chapter 7 Dropping Sounds
Chapter 8 Inserting Sounds
Chapter 9 Changing Sounds
Chapter 10 Connected Speech Combines Multiple Processes
