The communicative value of intonation in english book. An introductory chapter provides a short discussion of. Policies for english language teacher education in brazil today. The intonation of standard and northern european portuguese. Teaching and learning english as an additional language. Japanese learners, as well as students from other asian countries with a confucianbased educational system, have been disciplined all their lives to find the answer to a question made in a classroom setting. Discourse intonation and systemic functional phonology article pdf available in the open applied linguistics journal 2. Effects of instruction on l2 pronunciation development. We compare these rules with examples from authentic speech. Dec 04, 2003 part 2 examines applied linguistic research, looking at intonation in l2. The relationship between lexical stress and intonation in brazilian portuguese spoken in the north of brazil. Its two chapters provide a historical account of the development of research agendas in l2 intonation and of approaches to teaching intonation in l2. Jan 01, 2007 brazil s work helps to organize and demystify the teaching of intonation, but incorporating discourse intonation into the efl classroom remains challenging for teachers and students. It has been thought variously as a system, as a skill and as a means of communication.
The intonation of singapore english faculty of arts. Review of developments in research into english as a lingua franca volume 44 issue 3 jennifer jenkins, alessia cogo, martin dewey skip to main content accessibility help we use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a. This work aims to discuss multilingual issues involving teaching languages to the deaf in brazilian schools. The communicative value of intonation in english, originally published in 1985 by the english language research unit in birmingham and revised in 1992, sets out david brazil s description of the system of intonation in english. Buy discourse intonation and language teaching applied linguistics and language study by david brazil isbn. In order to characterize english teaching in brazilian public schools, coelho 2005 mentions three periods. English teaching and learning in brazilian regular schools.
The sample of the study consisted of forty female students who are studying english language and literature at the university of jordanaqaba. Brazils work helps to organize and demystify the teaching of intonation, but incorporating discourse intonation into the efl classroom remains challenging for teachers and students. Discourse intonation and systemic functional phonology from the phonology to the semantics. Review of developments in research into english as a. This is possibly one reason why intonation is such a neglected issue in language teaching p. Cristina becker lopes perna karina veronica molsing editorial teaching and learning english as an additional language. David brazils publications david brazils principal. Cueing agreement and disagreement in spoken english discourse and implications for elt. Bringing theory and practice together is the ideal tool for teachers of english or researchers interested in the acquisition of l2 phonology.
Aug 26, 2014 proceedings of the 3rd pronunciation in second language learning and teaching conference, iowa state university, 1617 september 2011, 1117. For this purpose, it proposes an analysis of a set of materials produced by the brazilian ministry of education aimed at situating means through which to act, represent and identify the deaf, as well as practices of teaching brazilian sign language and portuguese. The communicative value of intonation in english, originally published in 1985 by the english language research unit in birmingham and revised in 1992, sets out david brazils description of the system of intonation in english. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Longman, 1980 audiolingual method language teaching 205 pages. Failure to make use of the appropriate pragmatic discourse features of english intonation may result in serious communication breakdown between native and nonnative speakers of even advanced levels of proficiency. Communicative language teaching originated in britain in the 1960s as a replacement to the earlier structural method. Discourse intonation and language teaching david brazil. This account of the intonation of english is part of ongoing research at the university of birmingham, england. Proceedings of the 3rd pronunciation in second language learning and teaching conference, iowa state university, 1617 september 2011, 1117. Language has been viewed differently at different times by linguists and applied linguists. Eric ed202248 discourse intonation and language teaching.
However, in order to better understand where these differences could be coming from, a parallel needs to be established between the two types of institutions. Microsoft powerpoint three standards for good teaching brazil pleanary. Nov 17, 2011 teaching intonation using discourse 1. Linguistics this study investigates yesnoquestion intonation as used by three english native speaking teaching assistants nstas and three international teaching assistants itas. The main results are highlighted in the conclusion section 5. In communicative language teaching clt, language teaching is based on a view of language as communication, that is, language is seen as a social. The article describes how teachers perceive of cultureandlanguage teaching, their students perceptions and attitudes towards the foreign. We show how sociolinguistic approach with the focus on conscious control of using intonation can enhance the communicative performance of linguistic students at novosibirsk state technical university. Meyers and holt 2001 point out that when you are in an international environment, for instance an airport, it is easy to differentiate your native language from the many others being spoken in the area. The teaching of english as a foreign language in the. It begins by considering structuralism and the first attempts at teaching intonation ch. Halliday and greaves raise the question of the risk of doing this and explain that the lexicogrammar is the theoretical construct that enables us to explain the semogenic meaningmaking power of language as a whole provided that we present it. Pdf discourse intonation and systemic functional phonology.
English language in regular schools and language schools in brazil. Intonation rules in elt textbooks richard cauldwell and. Teaching intonation using discourse linkedin slideshare. In this paper, we aim at identifying the efficiency of teaching english intonation at the university level. Transcription of intonation of the spanish language introduction. The communicative value of intonation in english, originally published in 1985 by the english language research unit in birmingham and revised in 1992, sets ou. Part 2 examines applied linguistic research, looking at intonation in l2. The teaching of intonation seems to sit naturally with communicative language learning, but it is not an easy aspect of english to incorporate into the efl classroom. They are far more complex in english than was realised until a relatively short time ago, and even more comprehensive accounts now published are only partial and in some areas, doubtful description. Transcription of intonation of the spanish language. David brazils publications 1985a the communicative value of intonation in english. Hendrichsen 11 brazil july 2011 rob jenkins presenter. His theory is the most consistent and elaborate of the three prereformers. Students book can be regarded as a classroom activity or a selfstudy book, pronunciation instruction for brazilians.
Discourse intonation and language teaching applied. Stress and intonation with language and linguistics. A synthesis of 15 quasiexperimental intervention studies. Since then, the community of teachers has been divided. Brief history of language teaching up to the 20 th century the study of language has always been of great importance from the very first stages of the human race. Discourse intonation and systemic functional phonology. Following the references section 6, there is an appendix.
It attempts to take account of how intonation contributes to the communicative value of an act of speech. The final chapter intonation and language teaching, twice as long as any of the others, has as its main theme that the omission of instruction on intonation, and indeed other aspects of the sound system of english, is a striking characteristic of general course books and esp materials. Teaching languages to deaf students in brazil at the. Developed in the early 1980s by david brazil,discourse intonation looks at the act of speaking in a broader way, where the speakers can either signalthe listener the.
Therefore, i will use the expression foreign language teaching instead of. The communicative value of intonation in english, originally published in 1985 by the english language research unit in. Communication thought transfer, english second language, grammar, intonation, language instruction. This model of english intonation takes a discoursebased approach and attempts to assign meaning or a communicative value to the different aspects. The research is part of a larger comparative study in seven countries belgium, bulgaria, greece, poland, mexico, spain, and sweden. The chapter on preparing for pronunciation work focuses on. Discourse intonation phonetics brazil function part ii. The british model of english intonation the model of intonation usually adopted for the description of british english oconnor and arnold 1973, brazil 1985, cruttenden 1986, couperkuhlen 1986 involves the division of speech into intonation groups, each of which usually has one kinetic tone, or characteristic pitch movement. Discourse intonation phonetics brazil function part ii free download as powerpoint presentation. A discussion of pronunciation instruction in english as a second language begins with comments on preparing for pronunciation work in the classroom and goes on to examine the rhythm of english and the characteristics of intonation. Defense language institute english language school, lackland air force base, texas under contract f4160970c0033, and delivered in 1970 to staff members of the dliels. Discourse intonation requires intensive listening for changes in intonation patterns, which can be demanding even for native speakers. The teaching of english as a foreign language in the context.
Sociolinguistic perspective on teaching english intonation. Thus, while pronunciation instruction for brazilians. It is feared that such limitedstructural intonation teaching may pose learners to a serious communication breakdown when talking to 3. Raising the pedagogic status of discourse intonation teaching. Native speakers and international teaching assistants in academic discourse by jason j. However, they were assigned to experimental and control.
If the intonation falls, the speaker is not asking a question, but just asking the. Significantly the impulse to look at intonation in discourse. The university of birmingham, english language research. At the heart of many crosscultural misunderstandings lie problems associated with intonation features of learner english. The study examines the mses intonation using brazils 4 discourse intonation di approach as the main method of analysis, with a view to modifying di for this variety in view of how meaning is conveyed and understood. The final chapter on intonation and language teaching considers critically the view of intonation that existing teaching materials present. Even in contexts where we prepare teachers of two languages, as in brazil, for example, in univ ersities that pr ovide a dual licensur e in p or tuguese and another language, a teacher candidate may identify more as being a teacher of one language than another. David brazil s publications 1985a the communicative value of intonation in english. The movement towards a more meaningful approach to the teaching of english as a foreign language in brazilian regular schools 1 reached its climax in the 20 th century with the publication of the brazilian national curricular parameters pcn for the teaching of foreign languages 2 at basic education level. The communicative value of intonation in english book david.
1513 339 278 14 1126 1509 647 1470 485 1419 1129 1008 67 1144 985 1257 293 697 802 1289 289 727 368 481 1262 1031 1068 310 1619 1682 605 588 800 1138 528 994 504 549 606 482 1239 1055 1041 153 1415