Studies on English teaching in listening and speaking: An introduction Raung-fu Chung Southern Taiwan University

Teaching Goals The essential goal of this course is twofold. 1.On the one hand, students are armed with basic knowledge and capabilities of understanding how to pronounce and listen to spoken English. 2.On the other hand, the methodology of how to do research on speaking and listening English will be one of the main concerns.

Spech Chain

Which goes first? 1.Listening, on the basis of L1 acquisition 2.Speaking: no phoneme in mind, no listening distinction

English sounds: To [j] or not to [j] 1.Ear vs. year 2.East vs. yeast

Sound spectrographs

Contents to be taught To achieve the previous goals, this course is divided into four parts. 1.The first part will introduce the backgrounds of techniques in teaching or learning English production (pronunciation), including how to control muscles for the production of English sounds, segments, and prosody

Contents to be taught(2) 2. The second part will be concerned with the methodology of how to do research on English sounds. 3. The third part is focused on how to listen better to the production of English sounds or conversation.

Contents to be taught (3) 4. Finally, the main concern of the fourth part is with the methodology of doing related research on English listening comprehension.

Evaluation 1.Class participation 2.Assignments required 3.Oral report 4.Essay report (if needed)

Text Books

Fries, Charles C. and Robert Lado Introduction to English Pronunciation. University of Michigan Press.

Prator, Chifford H. Jr. and Betty Wallace Manual of American English Prounciation (4 th edition). Thomason and Heinle.

Brown, Gillian Listening to spoken English (2 nd edition). Longman.

Bond, Zinny S Slips of the ear. Academic Press.

Hart, Johan’t, Rene Collier and Antonie Cohen A perceptual study of intonation. Cambridge University Press.

Rost, Michael Listening in Language Learning. Longman.

Tatham Mark and Katherine Morton Speech production and perception. Palgrave.

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