Issues in English Pronunciation Teaching
Turkish-English Interlanguage Case
- 188 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Traditionally, the teaching of English pronunciation has been a marginalized, or indeed neglected, area in many English language teaching (ELT) programs despite the crucial role it plays in effective communication. In recent years, however, with the global spread of English as the means of international communication, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of pronunciation in the teaching and learning of English and its close link to other aspects of language learning, such as listening, speaking and vocabulary. Students as well as non-native English-speaking teachers (NNEST) place great importance on the mastery of English pronunciation, from which they can gain confidence, develop a greater sense of professional and linguistic competence and achieve greater intelligibility through the development of communicative skills in speaking, listening and vocabulary.With the emergence of paradigms of English as an international language (EIL), World Englishes (WE), English as a lingua franca (ELF) and the worldwide impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) on foreign language learning/teaching, this study presents a critical survey of these areas expressing the author's own views on the specific issue concerned while incorporating the views of other scholars. The book deals with both traditional and most recent viewpoints in pronunciation teaching, such as the nature of learning to pronounce, the pedagogical aims and objectives of teaching pronunciation, the role of the teacher and the notion of "intelligibility", which is considered to be a highly controversial issue for international communication within the paradigms of EIL, ELF and WE. The 'Turkish–English Interlanguage Talk' has been dealt with as a case study proposing pedagogical recommendations particularly for the Turkish academics/teacher trainers and the student-teachers of English language teaching (ELT) in mind as English pronunciation teaching is a very much neglected area in the Turkish ELT today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright information
- For Arın and Kerem
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preliminaries
- Introduction
- Part A: Background issues
- Part B: The classification of pronunciation difficulties
- Part C: Turkish-English interlanguage talk and Lingua Franca Core targets
- Part D: How do EIL and EFL relate to the CEFR?
- Appendix 1: Orthographic representations of Turkish phonemes with their variable allophones
- Appendix 2: Orthographic representations of English vowels, diphthongs and consonants
- Appendix 3: Turkish consonants
- Appendix 4: English consonants
- Appendix 5: Turkish and English vowels
- Appendix 6: Empirical data and procedures
- Bibliography