English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?

The recent (2018) Companion Volume to the Common European Framework offers an overhaul of many of the scales of descriptors, including, notably, phonology. A single, skeletal, scale for ‘phonological control’ is replaced by three scales, describing overall control, sound articulation, and prosodi...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:93365f400ee44ae2ad58afd113fa6b942021-11-22T17:14:07ZEnglish Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?2280-679210.30687/ELLE/2280-6792/2021/03/003https://doaj.org/article/93365f400ee44ae2ad58afd113fa6b942021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://edizionicafoscari.unive.it4/riviste/elle/2021/3/english-lingua-franca-new-parameters-for-the-teach/https://doaj.org/toc/2280-6792 The recent (2018) Companion Volume to the Common European Framework offers an overhaul of many of the scales of descriptors, including, notably, phonology. A single, skeletal, scale for ‘phonological control’ is replaced by three scales, describing overall control, sound articulation, and prosodic features. In each of these, the focus has become intelligibility, rather than proximity to a native speaker accent. In this article I examine the development of pronunciation teaching since the communicative revolution, and the rise of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in which intelligibility is crucial. The article concludes with a reflection on how (if at all) the revised framework could inform an ELF aware assessment of pronunciation. Newbold, DavidEdizioni Ca’ FoscariarticlePronunciation. Phonology. Accent. Common European Framework. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Non-native speaker (NNS). Assessment.Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammarP101-410ENITEducazione Linguistica Language Education, Vol 10, Iss 3, Pp - (2021)
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topic Pronunciation. Phonology. Accent. Common European Framework. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Non-native speaker (NNS). Assessment.
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
spellingShingle Pronunciation. Phonology. Accent. Common European Framework. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Non-native speaker (NNS). Assessment.
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
Newbold, David
English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?
description The recent (2018) Companion Volume to the Common European Framework offers an overhaul of many of the scales of descriptors, including, notably, phonology. A single, skeletal, scale for ‘phonological control’ is replaced by three scales, describing overall control, sound articulation, and prosodic features. In each of these, the focus has become intelligibility, rather than proximity to a native speaker accent. In this article I examine the development of pronunciation teaching since the communicative revolution, and the rise of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in which intelligibility is crucial. The article concludes with a reflection on how (if at all) the revised framework could inform an ELF aware assessment of pronunciation.
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title English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?
title_short English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?
title_full English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?
title_fullStr English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?
title_full_unstemmed English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?
title_sort english lingua franca: new parameters for the teaching (and testing) of english pronunciation?
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