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English pronunciation teaching at different educational levels: Insights into teachers’ perceptions and actions

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Szyszka M.
Research in Language
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2016
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vol. 14
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issue 2
165-180
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The aim of the present paper is to reflect upon the place of pronunciation in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching at different educational levels in Poland. To collect the data, an on-line survey was conducted among EFL professionals teaching at primary, lower secondary, and higher secondary schools in Poland. The questions focused on the respondents’ beliefs about pronunciation, teachers’ competences regarding pronunciation and pronunciation teaching, and the pronunciation teaching techniques they use. The results depict the most and least frequently used pronunciation teaching techniques at each of the three educational stages, and the beliefs of EFL teachers in Poland regarding pronunciation teaching.
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Assessing instructional effects of proficiency level EFL pronunciation teaching under connected speech-based approach

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Euler S. S.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2014
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vol. 4
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issue 4
665-692
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This article discusses the assessment of pronunciation instruction under a new approach to pronunciation teaching centered on the role of connected speech in the prosodic system of English. It also offers a detailed discussion of various empirical problems in teaching-oriented L2 pronunciation research and suggests ways of addressing them in intervention studies. A new explanatory sequential mixed-methods design was developed for this study, which was used to assess 10 advanced EFL learners in Germany before and after 13 weeks of instruction. The results revealed co-occurring developments in learners’ use of prosody and connected speech in line with the rationale of the approach. The findings lead to various implications for language teaching and assessment. For future research, ways are suggested to increase the validity and predictiveness of L2 pronunciation research from both empirical and pedagogical perspectives.
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Phonological aspects of theLongman communication 3000

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Huber D.
Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
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2011
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vol. 47
40
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The paper examines the implications of the Longman Communication 3000 word list for the teaching of English pronunciation at university level. In particular, I examine to what extent selected university curricula in France teach the pronunciation of this minimum of words and what modifications might be suggested to better serve the needs of students in equipping them with the pronunciation of contemporary, current vocabulary. It will be shown that this word list offers a wide range of useful examples to illustrate phonological phenomena, but teachers of English pronunciation/phonology might need to consider, for expository purposes, examples other than those found in standard handbooks of English phonology. I will show that using Longman Communication 3000 does not compromise the teaching of English phonology in any way, nor does it restrict the vocabulary to be taught. Quite the contrary, I am simply suggesting a conscious approximation of what is phonologically interesting/important to what is to be taught first.
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Learner Perspective on English Pronunciation Teaching in an EFL Context

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Tergujeff E.
Research in Language
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2013
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vol. 11
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issue 1
81-95
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This paper reports on an interview study with EFL learners that aimed to explore learners’ perceptions and views on English pronunciation teaching. The participants of the present study were ten EFL learners studying in the public educational system of Finland. Six of the participants were pupils attending basic education class nine, i.e. 15- to 16-year-old lower secondary level pupils. Two were primary level pupils attending basic education class four (aged 10), and two were upper secondary school pupils (aged 18). The interviews were thematic, and the learners were encouraged to speak freely about the English pronunciation teaching they were receiving and their opinions on this. In addition, they were asked to discuss their goals in English pronunciation, and to consider their pronunciation learning in class and out of class. The interviews were part of a wider study, mapping English pronunciation teaching practices in the context of Finnish schools. On the basis of the findings, the learners do not seem to have aspirations to native-like pronunciation, but rather aim at achieving intelligible and fluent speech. Only few reported an accent preference (British or American). The primary level learners expressed satisfaction with the amount of pronunciation teaching, whereas most of the lower and upper secondary level learners claimed that pronunciation teaching was insufficient. Despite their criticisms of their pronunciation teaching, the learners reported that they had learnt English pronunciation at school. In addition, many of the learners described learning pronunciation outside school, e.g. through media and personal encounters.
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The role of curriculum design and teaching materials in pronunciation learning

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Alghazo S.
Research in Language
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2015
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vol. 13
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issue 3
316-333
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This paper aims to provide insights into the role of curriculum design and teaching materials in the development of English pronunciation skills in EFL contexts. One of the main contextual factors negatively affecting the development of pronunciation abilities of EFL learners relates to the ‘often-unchanging’ curriculum design and the ‘blind’ choice of teaching materials without regard to students’ needs and goals. This study utilises structured interviews and focus group discussions (N=2 sessions) to elicit the views of a group (N=71) of third- and fourth-year English-major students at a university college in Saudi Arabia on the appropriateness of the curriculum design and teaching materials to their learning expectations in the area of English pronunciation. The results show that the great majority of students spoke unfavourably about the overall curriculum and teaching materials and considered those to be among the obstacles that they encounter in their learning of English pronunciation. This finding raises the question of curriculum design of English language teaching programs and the extent to which these curricula meet the needs of learners. The study suggests that a reformation of the structure of the curriculum in the study context is urgently needed and that more involvement of students’ perspectives on the design of curricula is of major importance.
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Learner Perspective on English Pronunciation Teaching in an EFL Context

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Tergujeff E.
Research in Language
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2013
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vol. 11
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issue 1
81-95
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This paper reports on an interview study with EFL learners that aimed to explore learners’ perceptions and views on English pronunciation teaching. The participants of the present study were ten EFL learners studying in the public educational system of Finland. Six of the participants were pupils attending basic education class nine, i.e. 15- to 16-year-old lower secondary level pupils. Two were primary level pupils attending basic education class four (aged 10), and two were upper secondary school pupils (aged 18). The interviews were thematic, and the learners were encouraged to speak freely about the English pronunciation teaching they were receiving and their opinions on this. In addition, they were asked to discuss their goals in English pronunciation, and to consider their pronunciation learning in class and out of class. The interviews were part of a wider study, mapping English pronunciation teaching practices in the context of Finnish schools. On the basis of the findings, the learners do not seem to have aspirations to native-like pronunciation, but rather aim at achieving intelligible and fluent speech. Only few reported an accent preference (British or American). The primary level learners expressed satisfaction with the amount of pronunciation teaching, whereas most of the lower and upper secondary level learners claimed that pronunciation teaching was insufficient. Despite their criticisms of their pronunciation teaching, the learners reported that they had learnt English pronunciation at school. In addition, many of the learners described learning pronunciation outside school, e.g. through media and personal encounters.
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Rethink your old teaching methods: designing a pronunciation course for young teenagers

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Lipińska D.
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
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2018
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vol. 4
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issue 1
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ABSTRACT   Numerous studies (e.g. Lipińska, 2014; Majer, 2002; Nowacka, 2003; Sobkowiak, 2002; Szpyra-Kozłowska, et al., 2002; Szpyra-Kozłowska, 2008; Waniek-Klimczak, 2002; Wrembel, 2002) have shown that although teaching L2 pronunciation is included in university curricula, it is at the same time virtually absent at lower stages of education. Moreover, it has been noticed that teaching phonetics to younger learners is advisable and may be really effective (e.g. Lipińska, in press a; Nixon and Tomlinson, 2005). Undoubtedly, one can say that there are a lot of books and courses designed for adults written by and for Polish learners of English (e.g. Porzuczek et al., 2013; Sawala et al., 2011) or dedicated to international users (e.g. Baker, 2006; Hancock, 2008; Hewings, 2010). But the materials and methods used while working with adult learners and university students are no longer applicable if one wants to teach phonetics in a different environment and create an attractive and efficient course for children or young teenagers, since, as e.g. Komorowska (2011) notices, each foreign language course has to be characterised by realistic goals and appropriate methods and components. The aim of this paper is to present various methods and materials which can be successfully applied while teaching English pronunciation to 11-13-year-olds. They have been used in three groups consisting of such L2 learners, and their usefulness and effectiveness have been proven by studies on both speech production and perception (e.g. Lipińska, in press b).
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Assessing instructional effects of proficiency-level EFL pronunciation teaching under a connected speech-based approach

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Euler S. S.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2014
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vol. 4
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issue 4
665-692
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This article discusses the assessment of pronunciation instruction under a new approach to pronunciation teaching centered on the role of connected speech in the prosodic system of English. It also offers a detailed discussion of various empirical problems in teaching-oriented L2 pronunciation research and suggests ways of addressing them in intervention studies. A new explanatory sequential mixed-methods design was developed for this study, which was used to assess 10 advanced EFL learners in Germany before and after 13 weeks of instruction. The results revealed co-occurring developments in learners’ use of prosody and connected speech in line with the rationale of the approach. The findings lead to various implications for language teaching and assessment. For future research, ways are suggested to increase the validity and predictiveness of L2 pronunciation research from both empirical and pedagogical perspectives.
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Teaching the pronunciation of sentence final and word boundary stops to French learners of English: distracted imitation versus audio-visual explanations

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Amand M., Touhami Z.
Research in Language
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2016
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vol. 14
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issue 4
377-388
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Studies on stop unrelease in second language acquisition have hitherto focused on the productions of Slavic learners of English (Šimačkova & Podlipsky, 2015) and experiments on Polish learners of English; the latter show the tendency to release stops on a more regular basis depending on the type of stop combinations (Rojczyk et al. 2013). In the present study, we aim to test the efficiency of audio-visual explanations as opposed to distracted imitation in pronunciation teaching amongst French learners of English. While unreleased stops are rather frequent in French and English - especially in plosives clusters (Byrd, 1993; Davidson, 2010), unreleased plosives in final positions are less common in French (Van Dommelen, 1983). During phase 1 of the experiment, three groups of 12 native French learners of English (level A1/A2, B1/B2 and C1/C2) were asked to read idiomatic expressions containing both homogeneous and heterogeneous sequences of voiceless stops straddled between words, namely, in sequences like “that cat” [dat˺ kat˺], and stops at the end of sentences like “I told him to speak” [tə spiːk˺]. In the second phase of the experiment, one half in each group was given a different task. The first group heard recorded versions of phase 1 sentences and before reading them out loud, counted up to five in their L1. Stimuli for imitation contained no release in the contexts under scrutiny. The other half had to watch a video explaining the phenomenon of unreleased stops with a production of phase-two expressions propped up by hand gestures. They were then asked to re-read the sentences given in phase 1. Based on these results the current study makes recommendations about what working environment should be prioritized in pronunciation teaching both in class and online (Kroger et al. 2010), and suggests ways to assess students and visually keep track of their progress.
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Effekte von Aussprachetraining im Klassenverband bei frankophonen Deutschlernenden

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Wottawa J.
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
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2020
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issue 18
465-478
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The efficiency of pronunciation training in the classroom in French learners of German was studied. To this end the German vowel length contrast and word initial [h] productions were examined. For this purpose, a speech corpus was compiled, which contains recordings of the learners’ speech assignments over a university semester. Acoustic analyses of the speech productions indicated that French learners of German showed progress over the semester only for word initial [h] at the beginning of words, while their productions of the German vowel length contrast neither improved nor worsened.
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Minimal pairs? Minimal difficulty! Vowel perception in young learners

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Lipińska D.
Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
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2017
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issue 14/1
125-141
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Most teachers are familiar with the rule “the earlier, the better” and that it is much easier to teach proper pronunciation from the very beginning than to correct fossilized pronunciation errors at later stag-es (e.g. Baker 1996; Nixon and Tomlinson 2005). While young children are able to acquire L2 phonetics by listening to stories, songs etc., teenagers who are about 13 years old are much more conscious learners (Nixon and Tomlinson 2005) and may start learning pronunciation just like they study L2 grammar or vocabulary. Since it is often said that perception precedes production, the aim of this paper is to present some teaching methods aimed at training young learners of English in vowel perception. It also reports the re-sults from classes in which these methods were used, which prove that young teenagers can easily learn to discriminate vowel pairs and thus also improve their listening skills.
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Większość nauczycieli języków obcych jest świadoma zasady “im wcześniej, tym lepiej”. Wiedzą oni też, że znacznie łatwiej jest uczyć prawidłowej wymowy w języku obcym od samego początku, niż poprawiać mocno zakorzenione błędy na późniejszych etapach edukacji (np. Ba-ker 1996; Nixon and Tomlinson 2005). Podczas gdy małe dzieci są w stanie łatwo przyswoić prawidłową wymowę języka drugiego słuchając piosenek, rymowanek czy historyjek, nastolatki w wieku od około 13 roku życia są znacznie bardziej świadomymi uczniami (Nixon and Tomlinson 2005) i mogą zacząć uczyć się fonetyki J2 w taki sam sposób, w jaki uczą się obcej gramatyki czy słownictwa. Ponieważ percepcja dźwięków poprzedza ich produkcję, celem niniejszego artykułu jest zaprezentowanie różnych metod nauczania fonetyki języka obcego ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem treningu percepcji głosek. Są to metody przewidziane dla młodszych nastolatków uczących się języka angielskiego. Ich skuteczność jest udowodniona przez badanie przeprowadzone w wyniku takich zajęć. Badanie wykazało, że młodsze nastolatki są w stanie nauczyć się różnic segmentalnych, dobrze rozróżniają samogłoski, a to pomaga usprawnić nie tylko ich wymowę, ale również umiejętność rozumienia ze słuchu.
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De invoeging van de glijklanken [j] en [w] als poging tot spanningimitatie bij de uitspraak van de Nederlandse klinkers [e], [y] en [o] door Poolstalige leerders

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Czerwonka-Wajda Z.
Roczniki Humanistyczne
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2020
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vol. 68
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issue 5
155-167
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In de tekst wordt de uitspraak van de Nederlandse klinkers [e], [y] en [o] door Poolstalige leerders behandeld. Naast een simpele subsitutie van de Nederlandse gespannen klinker door een Poolse (ongespannen) klinker, kan regelmatig worden vastgesteld dat de Nederlandse klinker gerealiseerd wordt als een combinatie van de Poolse klinker en de glijklank [j] of [w]. Gedetailleerde analyse van de data toont dat de frequentie van klinker+glijklank combinaties verschillend is en dat de invoeging van de glijklank gekoppeld is aan het niveau van het Nederlands (ze begint op A2-niveau). De glijklankinvoeging kan derhalve worden gezien als een poging om de spanning van de Nederlandse klinker te imiteren (spanning is geen distinctief kenmerk in het Pools), wat van de ontwikkeling van auditieve en articulatorische vaardigheden getuigt.
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The paper addresses the problem of the pronunciation of [e], [o] and [y] by Polish learners of Dutch. Next to a simple substitution of the three tense Dutch vowels by (lax) Polish vowels it can frequently be noted that an extra glide [j] or [w] is being added after the Polish vowel. The detailed analysis reveals that frequency of the vowel+glide combination differs and that the epenthesis of glides is correlated with learners’ level of Dutch (it starts around the A2 level). Adding the glide may therefore be seen as an attempt to imitate tension (as tension is not a distinctive feature in Polish) and proof of development of perception and pronunciation skills.
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Wprowadzenie półsamogłosek [j] i [w] jako próby realizacji pronuncjacji niderlandzkich samogłosek [e], [y] oraz [o] przez polskich studentów W artykule został poruszony problem wymowy niderlandzkich samogłosek [e], [o] i [y] przez osoby polskojęzyczne. Obok prostego zastąpienia danej niderlandzkiej napiętej samogłoski polską samogłoską regularnie pojawia się forma kombinowana z dodatkową półsamogłoską [j] lub [w] realizowaną po polskiej samogłosce. Szczegółowa analiza wskazuje, że poszczególne połączenia samogłoska+półsamogłoska mają różną frekwencję oraz że pojawiają się częściej wraz ze wzrastającym poziomem języka niderlandzkiego (od poziomu A2). Dodanie półsamogłoski można więc uważać za próbę imitacji napięcia (które nie jest w języku polskim cechą dystynktywną) i znak rozwijającej się sprawności audytywnej i artykulacyjnej.   In de tekst wordt de uitspraak van de Nederlandse klinkers [e], [y] en [o] door Poolstalige leerders behandeld. Naast een simpele subsitutie van de Nederlandse gespannen klinker door een Poolse (ongespannen) klinker, kan regelmatig worden vastgesteld dat de Nederlandse klinker gerealiseerd wordt als een combinatie van de Poolse klinker en de glijklank [j] of [w]. Gedetailleerde analyse van de data toont dat de frequentie van klinker+glijklank combinaties verschillend is en dat de invoeging van de glijklank gekoppeld is aan het niveau van het Nederlands (ze begint op A2-niveau). De glijklankinvoeging kan derhalve worden gezien als een poging om de spanning van de Nederlandse klinker te imiteren (spanning is geen distinctief kenmerk in het Pools), wat van de ontwikkeling van auditieve en articulatorische vaardigheden getuigt.
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