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Studies on English teaching in
listening and speaking: An
introduction
Raung-fu Chung
Southern Taiwan University
[email protected]
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
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4.
Class participation
Assignments required
Oral report
Essay report (if needed)
Text Books
Fries, Charles C. and Robert Lado. 1958. Introduction to
English Pronunciation. University of Michigan Press.
Prator, Chifford H. Jr. and Betty Wallace. 1985.
Manual of American English Prounciation (4th edition).
Thomason and Heinle.
Brown, Gillian. 1990. Listening to spoken English
(2nd edition). Longman.
Bond, Zinny S. 1999. Slips of the ear. Academic
Press.
Hart, Johan’t, Rene Collier and Antonie Cohen.
1990. A perceptual study of intonation. Cambridge
University Press.
Rost, Michael. 1990. Listening in Language
Learning. Longman.
Tatham Mark and Katherine Morton. 2006. Speech
production and perception. Palgrave.
Questions?