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Pennington, Martha C. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1989
Pronunciation is reexamined from a "top-down" perspective that shifts the focus of attention in language instruction from individual phonemes to suprasegmentals and other features of the larger context of utterances, including prosody, phonological fluency, voice quality, and gestures. (57 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Body Language, Distinctive Features (Language), Foreign Countries, Intonation
Vielmas-Butzbach, Michele – Francais dans le Monde, 1988
Techniques for alleviating language students' fears of listening to themselves and making themselves heard and understood, using reading aloud, are presented and illustrated. (MSE)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Body Language, Diacritical Marking, French
Temple, Liz – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
A method for highlighting aspects of oral communication for French second-language learners is described. Students are videotaped mimicking a one-minute passage in French, which is recorded over the video. The dubbed student performance illustrates the role of body language, rhythm, intonation, and other factors in speech. (MSE)
Descriptors: Body Language, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, French
Dufeu, Bernard – Francais dans le Monde, 1986
The connection between rhythm, motion, intonation, and meaning in second language learning is explored in a series of classroom activities and games. (MSE)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Discrimination, Body Language
Ringbom, Hakan, Ed.; Rissanen, Matti, Ed. – 1984
The 50 papers on English language and literature included in this compilation are grouped under the following headings: Old English (editing "Judgment Day," the syntactic types "every man" and "each of men," and continuity and variation in psalm glosses); Present-Day English (speech rate and vowel quantity as compared with Finnish): neutralization…
Descriptors: Authors, Body Language, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition)
