Transcript Sounds and Rhythm :Focus on Vowels

Sounds and Rhythm
:Focus on Vowels
Name: 黃琬斐Fei
Student ID: MA0C0301
Purpose of the book
• Help learners focus on longer term goals.
• Bring learners gradually from controlled,
cognitively based performance to automatic,
skill-based performance.
• Highlight the interdependence of
pronunciation with other aspects of language
use.
Part 1.
• The orientation begins with word stress
& nonlinguistic syllables and it includes
units on phrases and sentences, vowels,
rhythm, and the “the sound of English”.
• In the latter unit, it has a sounddistinguishing exercise.
Part 2.
• Part 2 contains 13 units on basic stress,
rhythm, and intonation. Each chapter
tries to bring learners from a controlled
to an automatic performance by
following a specific buildup pattern.
• But: The unit on compound-noun stress
is oversimplified.
Use of final falling intonation
a listen and repeat exercise
↓
audition exercises
↓
ask question-word questions
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make statements about pictures
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have learners interview each other
Part 3.
• Part 3 presents vowels in 35 separate units.
• In each of the chapters, learners move from words and
phrases, to producing sentences and answering
questions, to such communicative activities as telling a
short story using targeted words.
• Previously introduced vowels are contrasted and
summarized periodically.
• But : Lack of the closing consonant influence practice.
Part 4.
• Part 4 focuses on grammar words and
sentence rhythm.
• But: Not having students attempt to
learn to produce /ð/ before vowels and
before consonants.