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Book: Voice and Mirroring in L2 Pronunciation Instruction

Chapter: Introduction to Voice and Mirroring in L2 Pronunciation Instruction

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42465

Blurb:

Because pronunciation expresses a speaker’s identity, group membership and loyalty, a top-down pedagogy for teaching L2 pronunciation is preferable to the more form-oriented bottom-up approach. Chapter 1 introduces these approaches, as well as key terminology: pronunciation, phonology, segments, suprasegmentals, prosody, rhythm, IL phonology, understandability, intelligibility, and comprehensibility.

Chapter Contributors

  • Darren LaScotte (lascotte@umn.edu - dlascotte) 'University of Minnesota'
  • Colleen Meyers (meyer002@umn.edu - colleenmeyers) 'University of Minnesota'
  • Elaine Tarone (etarone@umn.edu - etarone) 'University of Minnesota'