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- Title
Second Language Accent and Pronunciation Teaching: A Research-Based Approach.
- Authors
Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J.
- Abstract
This article focuses on the importance of empirical studies in understanding the relationship between second language accent and pronunciation teaching. In English as an international language context, issues concerning pronunciation can be quite different from those that arise in English as a second language environment. Despite teachers' increased interest in pronunciation in recent years, it remains a very marginalized topic in applied linguistics. Numerous studies have shown that most people who acquire a second language after early childhood are likely to exhibit nonnative patterns of pronunciation. Students learning second language pronunciation are benefited by the explicit teaching of phonological form to help them notice the differences between their own productions and those of proficient speakers in the second language community. Numerous studies have suggested that many difficulties in second language production are rooted in perception. Evidence also indicates that appropriate perceptual training can lead to automatic improvement in production.
- Subjects
STRESS (Linguistics); SECOND language acquisition; INTONATION (Phonetics); ENGLISH as a foreign language; APPLIED linguistics; SENSORY perception
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 2005, Vol 39, Issue 3, p379
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3588486