Teaching and learning prosody: challenges for the future teacher of English

Description

The processes involved in the activities of teaching and learning a foreign language, particularly its prosodic features, has been a source of controversy for a long time. On the one hand, students find it hard to understand the implications of the relationships inherent to the different prosodic subsystems and, on the other, teachers encounter difficulties in circumscribing the scope and reach to be attained in a course. This paper looks critically into these difficulties, into the different methodological trends currently used at university level and into the difficulties met and surmounted in the learning/teaching process from the student’s viewpoint.

Period	6 Nov 2013
Event title	Conference on English Phonetics
Event type	Conference
Conference number	1
Location	Santiago, ChileShow on map