Shaping Learners' Pronunciation: Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English
A straightforward entry to understanding crucial components of phonological literacy, this essential text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. Brown and Crowther describe the basic phonemes (including consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance stress, and timing, as they are related to CS. With accessible, non-technical language, the authors show how phoneme variations, simple transitions, dropping sounds, inserting sounds, and changing sounds operate, and how CS is integral to English language teaching, especially for developing non-native users’ oral English communicative ability.

Each chapter features explicit discussions of pedagogical ideas targeting L2 learners, further resources, and CS-oriented exercises that are accessible and easy to implement for L2 teachers. These exercises are accompanied when relevant with recorded audio examples of CS production at www.routledge.com/9780367697570.

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Shaping Learners' Pronunciation: Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English
A straightforward entry to understanding crucial components of phonological literacy, this essential text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. Brown and Crowther describe the basic phonemes (including consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance stress, and timing, as they are related to CS. With accessible, non-technical language, the authors show how phoneme variations, simple transitions, dropping sounds, inserting sounds, and changing sounds operate, and how CS is integral to English language teaching, especially for developing non-native users’ oral English communicative ability.

Each chapter features explicit discussions of pedagogical ideas targeting L2 learners, further resources, and CS-oriented exercises that are accessible and easy to implement for L2 teachers. These exercises are accompanied when relevant with recorded audio examples of CS production at www.routledge.com/9780367697570.

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Shaping Learners' Pronunciation: Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English

Shaping Learners' Pronunciation: Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English

Shaping Learners' Pronunciation: Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English

Shaping Learners' Pronunciation: Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English

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A straightforward entry to understanding crucial components of phonological literacy, this essential text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. Brown and Crowther describe the basic phonemes (including consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance stress, and timing, as they are related to CS. With accessible, non-technical language, the authors show how phoneme variations, simple transitions, dropping sounds, inserting sounds, and changing sounds operate, and how CS is integral to English language teaching, especially for developing non-native users’ oral English communicative ability.

Each chapter features explicit discussions of pedagogical ideas targeting L2 learners, further resources, and CS-oriented exercises that are accessible and easy to implement for L2 teachers. These exercises are accompanied when relevant with recorded audio examples of CS production at www.routledge.com/9780367697570.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367701505
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/30/2022
Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Dean Brown is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA.

Dustin Crowther is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, USA.

Table of Contents

PART A IN THE BEGINNING

Chapter 1 Where Connected Speech Fits into English Language Learning

Chapter 2 Transcribing Speech Sounds

Chapter 3 Word Stress

Chapter 4 Utterance Stress and Timing

PART B AS A RULE

Chapter 5 Phoneme Variations

Chapter 6 Simple Transitions

Chapter 7 Dropping Sounds

Chapter 8 Inserting Sounds

Chapter 9 Changing Sounds

Chapter 10 Connected Speech Combines Multiple Processes

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