Technology as an Awareness-raising Tool for Sensitising Teachers to Features ofStress and Rhythm in English  

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Coniam, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Awareness (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 1 (2002), page 30-42.
Fulltext: 11.1.30-42.pdf (440.73KB)

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This paper discusses language awareness activities for sensitising trainee English-language teachers to suprasegmental phonological features in English, with particular reference to features associatedwith the concept of ‘stress timing’. After an initial discussionof stress timing and how it relatesto English, the articlediscusses the use of quasi-authentic material drawn from a television programme – with which course participants were familiar – as the source material for the language awareness exerciseson suprasegmental phonology. The article discusseswhy segmental phonology is given broad coverage on many English-language teacher training programmes but suprasegmental phonology is not; in part, it is argued, because segmental features are more easily explained and taught than suprasegmental ones. The article therefore makes a case for using material which is authentic and with which participants are familiar– hence the use of a popular televisionprogramme. Having made a case for use of the material described, the article describes how participants are made aware of features of stress timing by using computer technology which allows graphics of the speech waveforms to be captured and subsequently analysed.

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