Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca e-book
Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca e-book
A user-friendly handbook which explores the benefits of an English as a Lingua Franca approach to pronunciation
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Understand what English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is, explore the benefits of an ELF approach, and learn how to plan, teach, and assess it.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-465885-0
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is one manifestation of the changing role of English in the world today. This book and audio links explore how ELF may be relevant to teaching your students pronunciation. It draws on the Lingua Franca core, a set of pronunciation features that research has found to be essential to intelligibility in ELF communications, and explores how adopting an ELF approach can benefit students.
It covers techniques and materials for
teaching ELF
pronunciation, including planning and assessment and the influence of learners' first language pronunciation. The audio links feature dialogues between ELF speakers from fifteen different first language backgrounds.
Key features
- Explores the benefits of an ELF approach to pronunciation
- Explains how to adopt, plan and assess an ELF approach to pronunciation
- Describes the materials and techniques for teaching ELF pronunciation
- Shows how to make use of the learner's first-language pronunciation
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Introduction
Chapter 1 English: changing roles, changing goals
Chapter 2 The Lingua Franca Core
Chapter 3 Adopting an ELF approach
Chapter 4 Techniques and materials for teaching ELF pronunciation
Chapter 5 ELF and the learner's first-language pronunciation Chapter 6 ELF pronunciation: planning and assessment
Transcripts
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Part of... Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers
Each title in the series is intended to serve both as a basis for training courses and seminars, and as a reference text.
