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
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/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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