Frequência De Uso De Ítem E Inteligibilidade Do Inglês Como Língua Franca

Becker, Marcia Regina; Kluge, Denise Cristina

doi:10.22456/2238-8915.52664

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“…Ronaldo Mangueira LIMA JR. | Ubiratã Kickhöfel ALVES |• the listener. In a recent study, Becker and Kluge (2015) and Gonçalves and Silveira (2015) showed that word frequency is also a factor that plays a role in intelligibility. Dutra (2014) considers intelligibility to be a dynamic construct with an emergent property.…”

Section: L2 Pronunciation Research In Brazil: a Dynamic Accountmentioning

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A dynamic perspective on L2 pronunciation development: bridging research and communicative teaching practice

Lima

Alves

2019

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The main goal of this paper is to raise language teachers' awareness of the need to incorporate research-based pronunciation teaching into their communicative language classes in an ongoing and integrated manner. To do so, we begin by characterizing language and its learning process as dynamic systems, which develop over time through the constant interaction of their agents. Then we review current studies on L2 sound production and perception as well as on the explicit teaching of L2 pronunciation under a dynamic perspective in the Brazilian scenario. Finally, we suggest a few general directions and guiding principles for pronunciation teaching, showing that it is possible to include pronunciation instruction in communicative language teaching.

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Section: L2 Pronunciation Research In Brazil: a Dynamic Accountmentioning

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A dynamic perspective on L2 pronunciation development: bridging research and communicative teaching practice

Lima

Alves

2019

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“…In Brazil, intelligibility and comprehensibility 7 have been investigated to inform pedagogy mostly at the segmental level (e.g., BECKER, 2011;CRUZ, 2003CRUZ, , 2004CRUZ, , 2008a2008b;SCHADECH, 2013;SCHADECH;SILVEIRA, 2013). A few other studies have investigated the effect of non-target production of suprasegments on the intelligibility of BP users of English (GOMES, BRAWERMAN-ALBINI; ENGELBERT, 2014; MARTA, 2011; PASSARELLA-REIS; GONÇALVES; SILVEIRA, in press) 8 , but, to the best of our knowledge, research on the nuclear stress associated to intelligibility, comprehensibility, and/or interpretability of BP-IL users' speech is inexistent.…”

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Nuclear stress placement by Brazilian Users of English as an International Language

Reis

Silveira

2016

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Nuclear stress placement by Brazilian users of English as an international languageA alocação do acento nuclear por falantes brasileiros de inglês como língua internacionalLeonice Passarella dos Reis * Rosane Silveira ** RESUMO:There have been some studies on the pronunciation features that are important to guarantee speech intelligibility by users of English as an international language (IL). In light of the importance of nuclear stress placement for successful communication between speakers in the international community (JENKINS, 2000), the present article reports the results of a pilot study that investigated the way nuclear stress is placed by four Brazilian Portuguese (BP) intermediate users of English when interacting with other BP users of English (as listeners). Participants met in pairs and engaged in a controlled pairwork oral task, which yielded the production of 160 audio-recorded utterances. With the use of Praat, perceptual and acoustic analysis of the dataset were performed in order to examine if nuclear stress was placed as expected according to the discursive contexts set. The analysis revealed that speakers had difficulties in placing the expected nuclear stress at sentence initial, medial, and, surprisingly, final position. Additionally, it was found that for the participants in the present study, signaling both corrective information and information being elicited by means of nuclear stress placement was challenging. This difficulty in placing nuclear stress may compromise the way these speakers' intent is interpreted when holding interactions in English.

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Frequência De Uso De Ítem E Inteligibilidade Do Inglês Como Língua Franca

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A dynamic perspective on L2 pronunciation development: bridging research and communicative teaching practice

A dynamic perspective on L2 pronunciation development: bridging research and communicative teaching practice

Nuclear stress placement by Brazilian Users of English as an International Language

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