Newsletter article
Awakening Sleeping Beauty: Pronunciation instruction beyond ‘listen and repeat’
Speak Out, Vol.52, pp.21-29
2015
Abstract
As a teacher educator, I had used 'listen and repeat' to teach pronunciation with limited success until the day I began to reflect on whether there were other alternatives. In my search for these alternatives, I have discovered new ways of teaching pronunciation, somewhat like Sleeping Beauty waiting to be awakened from slumber. In this article, therefore, I will discuss the reasons why I believe 'listen and repeat' continues to hold pronunciation back, and describe some alternative techniques that teachers and teacher educators could consider to move away from such a technique. I will also share an informal experiment I have conducted in Brazilian Portuguese as an awareness-raising exercise with English native speaker teachers in Australia. The experiment shows the importance of exploring the learners' first language (L1) phonology to teach second language (L2) pronunciation. The article will then conclude with individual teachers' reactions to this experiment.
Details
- Title
- Awakening Sleeping Beauty: Pronunciation instruction beyond ‘listen and repeat’
- Authors
- Arizio M Sweeting (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Publication details
- Speak Out, Vol.52, pp.21-29
- Publisher
- International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
- Date published
- 2015
- ISSN
- 2313-7703
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449171502621
- Output Type
- Newsletter article
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