John M. Levis

Intelligibility, Oral Communication, and the Teaching of Pronunciation

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Produktbeschreibung

An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9781108416627
• ISBN-10: 1108416624
• Artikelnr.: 52424189

Autorenporträt

John M. Levis is Professor of TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and Applied Linguistics at Iowa State University. He is co-editor of Social Dynamics in Second Language Accent (2014), The Handbook of English Pronunciation (2015), and Pronunciation: Critical Concepts in Linguistics (2017), and is the founding editor of the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. A Framework for the Teaching of Spoken Language: 1.
Intelligibility, comprehensibility and spoken language; 2. Setting
priorities: what teachers and researchers say; Part II. Word-Based Errors
and Intelligibility: 3. Segmentals and intelligibility; 4. Consonant
clusters and intelligibility; 5. Word stress and intelligibility; Part III.
Discourse-Based Errors and Intelligibility: 6. Rhythm and intelligibility;
7. Intonation and intelligibility: the roles of prominence and tune; Part
IV. Teaching and Research Approaches to Intelligibility: 8. Teaching for
intelligibility: guidelines for setting priorities; 9. The
intelligibility-based classroom; 10. What should and should not be taught -
an intelligibility-based approach.