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List Books » Teaching Pronunciation: A Course for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Authors: Marianne Celce-Murcia, Donna M. Brinton, Janet M. Goodwin
ISBN-13: 9780521406949, ISBN-10: 0521406943
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
This course includes an overview of current theory and practice.
List of Figures and Tables | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Transcription Key | ||
Pt. I | Pronunciation Instruction in Perspective | 1 |
Ch. 1 | The History and Scope of Pronunciation Teaching | 2 |
Ch. 2 | Research on the Teaching and Acquisition of Pronunciation Skills | 14 |
Pt. II | The Sound System of North American English: An Overview | 35 |
Ch. 3 | The Consonant System | 37 |
Ch. 4 | The Vowel System | 93 |
Ch. 5 | Stress, Rhythm, and Adjustments in Connected Speech | 131 |
Ch. 6 | Prominence and Intonation in Discourse | 175 |
Pt. III | Intersections of the Sound System with Other Areas of Language | 221 |
Ch. 7 | The Sound System and Listening | 222 |
Ch. 8 | The Sound System and Grammar: Inflectional Morphology and Parts of Speech | 247 |
Ch. 9 | The Sound System and Orthography | 269 |
Pt. IV | Issues in Implementation | 289 |
Ch. 10 | New Directions in the Teaching of Pronunciation | 290 |
Ch. 11 | Pronunciation in the Language Curriculum | 319 |
Ch. 12 | Testing and Evaluation | 341 |
Appendix 1 | Differences Between NAE (North American English) and British English | 363 |
Appendix 2 | Comparison of Phonetic and Phonemic Alphabets | 371 |
Appendix 3 | Positional Occurrence of NAE Consonants | 373 |
Appendix 4 | English Syllable Structure | 375 |
Appendix 5 | Distribution of Vowels Before Nasal Consonants | 376 |
Appendix 6 | Commonly Reduced Function Words | 377 |
Appendix 7 | Constraints on Contraction and Blending | 380 |
Appendix 8 | Irregular Verbs in English | 382 |
Appendix 9 | Tense-Lax Vowel Alternations in Stressed Syllables of Base Forms and Derived Words | 387 |
Appendix 10 | Consonant Letter-Sound Correspondences and Variations (including digraphs) | 389 |
Appendix 11 | Systematic Differences in British and American Spelling | 395 |
Appendix 12 | Profile Questionnaire Used at UCLA | 396 |
Appendix 13 | Diagnostic Passage and Accent Checklist | 398 |
Appendix 14 | ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines for Speaking | 400 |
Appendix 15 | Speech Intelligibility/Communicability Index for Describing Speech and Evaluating Its Impact on Communication | 403 |
Appendix 16 | Speaking Performance Scale for UCLA Oral Proficiency Test for Nonnative TAs | 404 |
Appendix 17 | Self-Evaluation Form: Interview Role Plays | 405 |
Bibliography | 407 | |
Answer Key for "On the Cassette" Exercises | 420 | |
Author Index | 427 | |
Subject Index | 429 |