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ESP1 within ESP: the design and implementation of a pronunciation module in a technical English course

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    Identifier: imarina:7473815
  • Authors:

    Quesada Vazquez, Leticia
    Romero, Joaquin
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Quesada Vazquez, Leticia; Romero, Joaquin;
    Department: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
    URV's Author/s: Romero Gallego, Joaquin
    Keywords: Varcov Stress Rhythm instruction Rhythm Pronunciation teaching Language English for specific purposes (esp) English as a foreign language (efl) 1st
    Abstract: This paper focuses on the design and implementation of a ten-week pronunciation module within a university technical English course as part of a broader study that investigates the efficacy of explicit rhythm instruction to improve engineering students' prosody in English. Sessions were adapted to the course contents and followed Celce-Murcia, Brinton & Goodwin's (1996) steps to teach communicatively. The participants were 298 Spanish/Catalan-speaking first-year undergraduate engineering students divided into three experimental groups and three control groups. The experimental groups received explicit rhythm instruction while the control groups did not. They all were recorded before and after the training. Ten sentences were analyzed acoustically and measures of rhythm (VarcoV) were obtained. Preliminary results revealed that students who took rhythm instruction tended to increase their VarcoV values, approaching English rhythm, while the control group showed a volatile behavior. The comparison of the effect sizes of each group's differences in performance before and after instruction was statistically significant. Findings suggest that rhythm instruction can be beneficial to enhance EFL students' prosody and that pronunciation can be effectively introduced within an ESP course.
    Thematic Areas: Linguistics and language Linguistics Letras / linguística Language and linguistics Language & linguistics Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: joaquin.romero@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0002-6264-689X
    Record's date: 2023-02-19
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: http://onomazein.letras.uc.cl
    Papper original source: Onomazein. 209-228
    APA: Quesada Vazquez, Leticia; Romero, Joaquin; (2020). ESP1 within ESP: the design and implementation of a pronunciation module in a technical English course. Onomazein, (), 209-228. DOI: 10.7764/onomazein.ne6.11
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Article's DOI: 10.7764/onomazein.ne6.11
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2020
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Language & Linguistics,Language and Linguistics,Linguistics,Linguistics and Language
    Varcov
    Stress
    Rhythm instruction
    Rhythm
    Pronunciation teaching
    Language
    English for specific purposes (esp)
    English as a foreign language (efl)
    1st
    Linguistics and language
    Linguistics
    Letras / linguística
    Language and linguistics
    Language & linguistics
    Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciencias humanas
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