Raising self-consciousness: phonetic education as embodied language learning

• Authors: Giulio Scivoletto

Abstracts

EN

Phonetic education is presented in this contribution as a pedagogical approach and didactic method for teaching and acquiring phonetic-phonological competence in the foreign language classroom at school. To develop such competence, we should overcome the school practice that still today does not seem to deviate from the listen-and-repeat method: the teaching of articulatory phonetics is proposed as a method and tool for learning based on self-consciousness. By discovering the sound dimension of language, and the bodily reality through which it is realised, the student undergoes an educational experience based on perception. The formative value of a phonetic education is framed in the perspective of body pedagogy, in line with an inclusive and democratic approach to language education.

Keywords

EN

phonetic education; body pedagogy; perception; democratic language education

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 183-196

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Giulio Scivoletto

• Università degli Studi di Catania

• https://orcid.org/0000000166482522

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2022.49.1.11

Biblioteka Nauki

15023245