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The Phonology of English as an International Language: New Models, New Norms, New Goals (Oxford Applied Linguistics) ISBN: 0194421643 ISBN13: 9780194421645 The Phonology of English as an International Language: New Models, New Norms, New Goals (Oxford Applied Linguistics) By: Jennifer Jenkins Publisher: Oxford University Press Format: Paperback Our Price: 24.50

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This book advocates a new approach to pronunciation teaching, in which the goal is mutual intelligibility among non-native speakers, rather than imitating native speakers. It will be of interest to all teachers of English as an International Language, especially Business English. It proposes a basic core of phonological teaching, with controversial suggestions for what should be included.


Contents:

Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1

The background: Changing patterns in the use of English
- The historical shift
- Changing ownership
- changing terminology
- Appropriate pedagogy for an international language
- The EIL phonological problem: where do we go next?
- 2

The variation problem 1: Inter-speaker variation
- Inter-speaker variation
- Inter-speaker segmental variation and its effects
- Inter-speaker suprasegmental variation and its effects
- 3

The variation problem 2: Intra-speaker variation
- L1 and IL intra-speaker variation: a distinction
- Phonological intra-speaker variation and its effects on interlanguage talk
- 4

Intelligibility in interlanguage talk
- What do we mean by intelligibility?
- Defining intelligibility in interlanguage talk
- Bottom-up and top-down processing
- The role of phonology in ILT: miscommunication in the ILT data
- Intelligibility and the spread of English
- Conclusion
- 5

The role of transfer in determining the phonological core
- The complex process of L1 phonological transfer
- Conclusions: transfer, intelligibility, and teachability
- 6

Pedagogic priorities 1: Identifying the phonological core
- Establishing the Lingua Franca Core
- The origin of the Lingua Franca Core
- Features of the Lingua Franca Core
- Redefining phonological error and correctness for EIL
- 7

Pedagogic priorities 2: Negotiating intelligibility in the ELT classroom
- Accommodation theory and intra-speaker variation in ILT
- Communicative efficiency and interlanguage
- Accommodation and IL repertoire
- Accommodating classrooms
- 8

Proposals for pronunciation teaching for EIL
- An overhaul of pronunciation teaching in English language teacher education
- An overhaul of pronunciation testing
- Radical improvement in the status of 'NNS' EIL pronunciation teachers
- Pronunciation learning for 'native speakers' of English
- Afterword: The future of the phonology of EIL
- Bibliography
- Index


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Advocates a different approach to pronunciation teaching, in which the goal is mutual intelligibility among non-native speakers, rather than imitating native speakers. This book is of interest to teachers of English as an International Language, especially Business English. It also proposes a basic core of phonological teaching.

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