Raising the Pedagogic Status of Discourse Intonation Teaching.

Clennell, Charles

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Publication Date: 1997

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Raising the Pedagogic Status of Discourse Intonation Teaching.

Clennell, Charles

ELT Journal, v51 n2 p117-25 Apr 1997

Presents a case for teaching the pragmatic (discourse-based) features of English intonation to foreign students of English as a Second Language. Advocates a systematic approach to teaching these functions of English intonation through a consciousness-raising methodology that uses authentic academic oral texts. (25 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, Intonation, Oral Language, Pragmatics, Second Language Instruction, Stress (Phonology), Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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