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- Title
Spelling in TESL: Stress Cues to Vowel Quality.
- Authors
Dickerson, Wayne B.; Finney, Rebecca H.
- Abstract
The article discusses the importance of spelling in Tests for English as Second Language (TESL) as a major pronunciation resource. Learners can increase their oral intelligibility and expand their active, speaking vocabulary by the exploration of spelling. Teaching materials must introduce spelling patterns into the curriculum to incorporate such outcomes as pronunciation goals. In order to make vowel quality predictions from spelling, learners must also have word-stress information. Stress information is available in the form of pedagogical translations of generative research. Two such stress generalizations and associated vowel quality patterns are discussed. Sample lesson materials are also provided to illustrate how the enlarged pronunciation goals are realized in the classroom. ESL pronunciation instruction contribute to the ESL learner by helping the class in speak intelligibly and helps learners learn the important sound and rhythm patterns of spoken English. The pronunciation class helps learners pronounce English words in a clearly understandable way.
- Subjects
PHONOLOGY; ENGLISH as a foreign language; ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling; INTONATION (Phonetics); PHONETICS; TONE (Phonetics); ORAL interpretation; ENGLISH language conversation &; phrase books; TEACHING aids
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 1978, Vol 12, Issue 2, p163
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3585607