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Simon, Dorothea P.; Simon, Herbert A. – 1972
This paper distinguishes several ways in which phonemic information might be employed in spelling; examines some empirical data on the consequences of using these information sources; formulates hypotheses about the underlying processes involved; and suggests possible implications for the teaching (and learning) of spelling. Included are tables of…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Elementary School Students, Graphemes, Intonation
Kovac, Ceil – 1975
Following a review of related work on intonation, both phonetic and phonemic descriptions of intonation in Italian are presented. Using recordings of radio broadcasts as data, a system of assigning pitch levels to syllables was devised, based on four pitches. The close relationship between stress placement and pitch level was considered. In order…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Intonation, Italian
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Hayden, Louise – Journal of Reading, 1978
Dialogues proved to be a successful technique for improving communication skills of bilingual students and dialect speakers, as well as for good and poor readers who speak standard English. (MKM)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Developmental Reading, Dialogs (Literary), Elementary Secondary Education
Kettemann, Bernhard – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1977
Maintains that teaching phonetics should be aimed at enabling the learner to correct himself and that intonation, rhythm and suprasegmental phonemes have commonly been neglected. Describes the value and use of the SUVAG-Lingua Frequency Filter for correcting pronunciation, individually and in groups. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Educational Equipment, Intonation, Laboratory Equipment, Language Instruction
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
Kaneman-Pougatch, Massia – Francais dans le Monde, 1986
Outlines interesting approaches and exercises for pronunciation instruction in the French class. The focus is on auditory discrimination, integration, phoneme-grapheme correspondence, and creativity with sounds. (MSE)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Dialogs (Language)
Crystal, D. – Engl Lang Teaching, 1970
Discusses semiotics, which, in dealing with how meaning is communicated, views language as only one component of communication activity. Gives special attention to the new perspectives which semiotics has given to the study and teaching of intonation. (FB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Intonation
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Luthy, Melvin J. – Language Learning, 1983
Native English speakers' and foreign students' perceptions of 14 English intonation signals, recorded free of verbal context, show foreign students may be misinterpreting or missing much information communicated with nonlexical signals. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
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Willmott, M. B. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979
Different types of stress, rhythm, and intonation used by Nigerian speakers of English are analyzed, and lexical differences are discussed. Problems with vowels, consonants, and syllable structure are also covered. (SW)
Descriptors: Consonants, Dialects, English (Second Language), Intonation
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Morgan, Brian – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Drawing on reflections of a teacher-researcher in a community-based adult ESL classroom in Toronto, Canada, explores the relationship between identity and intonation. Presents an account of teaching intonation to a group of predominantly Chinese immigrant women, and discusses an activity that develops awareness of sentence-level intonation as a…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Females, Foreign Countries
Hewings, Martin – IRAL, 1995
This study compared tone choice in parallel readings of scripted dialog by 12 speakers of British English and 12 learners of English from Korea, Greece, and Indonesia. It found that the nonnative speakers failed to use rising tones for socially integrative purposes in the way observed in the data from native speakers. Contains 27 references. (MDM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, English (Second Language), English Teachers
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Kertoy, Marilyn K. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
An auditory comprehension task was used to determine the ways in which first and fifth graders and adults use topic continuity and contrastive emphasis in the assignment of referents for pronouns in sentences. The finding of significant differences in performance for emphasized and unemphasized pronouns suggests that subjects use constrastive…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Gardner, Rod – Prospect, 1997
Minimal feedback in English (e.g., "yeah, mm hm") are common in conversation but rarely found in second-language instructional materials. They can be examined best through the turn-taking system in English. We now know enough about minimal feedback to teach its use. Examples of use are presented here, with attention to intonation…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Feedback, Instructional Materials
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Chun, Dorothy M. – Language Learning & Technology, 1998
Reviews research on the acquisition of suprasegmentals by second language learners and the potential of computer-based instructional materials for improving intonation; describes and critiques some of the software previously available for this purpose; and suggests criteria for the conceptualization of multimedia software and concomitant research…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Instructional Materials, Intonation
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Levis, John; Pickering, Lucy – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2004
Intonation, long thought to be a key to effectiveness in spoken language, is more and more commonly addressed in English language teaching through the use of speech visualization technology. While the use of visualization technology is a crucial advance in the teaching of intonation, such teaching can be further enhanced by connecting technology…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech, Intonation, Oral Language
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