The importance of prosodic constituent in teaching pronunciation of French as a foreign language : access to meaning in speech Learning a foreign language means being in contact with a new environment of sounds compared to that of the mother tongue. The foreign language teacher must help learners to access these sounds both from a perception and a production point of view. The verbo-tonal method of phonetic correction designed in the 1960s-1970s by Professor Petar Guberina (University of Zagreb) provides teachers with tools to correct learners’ pronunciation. The aim of this article is to present some of the advantages of the VTM for phonetic correction, in particular with regard to prosody by showing how important this is for effective communication. This comes in response to difficulties noted by Polish-speaking beginners in French as a foreign language, in particular those concerning the rhythmic unit and the accentuation of rhythmic groups, which we will call « phonetic words ».
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