An Increase in Imported Goods, Imports Have Increased – The Role of Teaching Pronunciation in an Esp Classroom

• Authors: Tatjana Đurović , Nadežda Silaški
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The fact that English has become the major lingua franca of international business and economy has influenced the goal of teaching pronunciation in an ESP economics classroom: the nativelike speaking skill as the ultimate goal has been superseded by a more realistic and more reasonable goal - the adoption of intelligibility and communicability skills. We argue here, however, that pronunciation skills should be included in a university level ESP economics course syllabus. We point out common pronunciation errors made by economics students due to first-language transfer, exemplifying our points with various types of exercises aiming at overcoming their pronunciation problems.

Keywords

EN

errors; ESP; exercises; pronunciation; Serbian

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89-98

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-02-22

Contributors

author

Tatjana Đurović

• University of Belgrade

author

Nadežda Silaški

• University of Belgrade

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2013-0007