Autor según el artículo: Quesada Vazquez, Leticia; Romero, Joaquin;
Departamento: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
Autor/es de la URV: Romero Gallego, Joaquin
Palabras clave: Varcov Stress Rhythm instruction Rhythm Pronunciation teaching Language English for specific purposes (esp) English as a foreign language (efl) 1st
Resumen: 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.
Áreas temáticas: Linguistics and language Linguistics Letras / linguística Language and linguistics Language & linguistics Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: joaquin.romero@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-6264-689X
Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-19
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: http://onomazein.letras.uc.cl
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Onomazein. 209-228
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes 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
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
DOI del artículo: 10.7764/onomazein.ne6.11
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2020
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
Repositori URV