Language 4044 Language Teaching Methods

Spring, 2007

(Prepared: December 26, 2006; Last Change: Jan 13, 2007)

Assignments

II. Portfolio Projects - C. Pronunciation

You should work on this throughout the semester. I have put a suggested start date for this portion. I have not put due dates along the way for several reasons: 1) some things cannot be done (well) until you have done certain readings; 2) some things (articles) will take time to find; 3) the reading assignments are often long, so I want to give you the flexibility to fit these projects in as your schedule allows; 4) you are adults and professionals and should not need due dates.

1. Obtain (UMD Library or Interlibrary Loan --start early) one of the articles, read it, and write a summary and reaction paper. For those of you working on the same article, one person should order it from Interlibrary Loan; for (older) journals held at UMD, see stacks or Annex. You are welcome to find a different article on the teaching of pronunciation for your target language.

Spanish:

• Lord, Gillian. "(How) Can We Teach Foreign Language Pronunciation? On the Effects of a Spanish Phonetics Course ", Hispania, 88, No. 3 (Sept 2005), 557-67.
• Arteaga, D. L. "Articulatory Phonetics in the First Year Spanish Classroom", The Modern Language Journal , v. 84, No. 3 (Fall 2000) p. 339-54. 
• Elliott, A. Raymond. "On the Teaching and Acquisition of Pronunciation within a Communicative Approach", Hispania, 80 (March 1997), 95-108.
• Alley, David C. "Contextualizing Pronunciation Exercises through the Use of Fluency Squares", Hispania, 74 (Dec 1991), 1091-96.
• Ataide Melo, C. L. d. "The Teaching of Pronunciation: A Hands-on Approach", Hispania, v. 72 (September 1989), 749-54.

French:

• Knoerr, H., et. al. "L'enseignement de la prononciation en francais langue seconde: de la cassette au cederom", Canadian Modern Language Review , v. 61 no. 3 (March 2005), 383-405.

• Jordain, Sarah and Marilyn V. Schuler. "Morte la bete noire: Two Techniques for Teaching the French /r/", The French Review, 72, No. 2 (Dec 1998), 216-28.

• Shelly, Sharon L. "Teaching the Sound System(s): The Case of Mid Vowels", The French Review, 71 (March 1998), 598-606.
• Dansereau, D. "Phonetics in the Beginning and Intermediate Oral Proficiency-oriented French Classroom", The French Review , v. 68 (March 1995), 638-51.

German:

• Wipf, Joseph A. "Towards Improving Second-language Pronunciation", Unterrichtspraxis, 18 (Spring 1985), 55-63.
• Anderson, Philip N. "Wien und Wein: Connecting Sound and Symbol in First-year German", Unterrichtspraxis, 17 (Fall 1984), 350-51.