Intelligibility and pronunciation goals in teaching

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Phonetics and Phonology Lesson 3 How much do you remember? - What affects pronunciation learning and teaching? - What are the teacher’s and the students’ roles? - Which other factors come into play? Let’s go back to pronunciation goals! - Intelligibility is the most sensible goal - What is that? - The more words a listener is able to identify correctly — equivalence of sounds Intelligibility What matters is counts of sameness. Many German speakers substitute /v/ for /w/. ‘I /v/ant to tell you’. Discussion - Can a foreign accent affect intelligibility? How so? Can you provide examples? - What other factors affect intelligibility? What affects intelligibility? - hesitations, constant self-correction, grammatical restructurings - speed - We can’t pick up the most important bits – We need some coffee - Stress, rhythm, intonation - Idiosyncratic speech habits - Listener: the listener’s familiarity with the foreign accent and ability to use contextual clues when listening. - Exposure Intelligibility in the context of communication A: What are you laughing at? B: (stops laughing)......oh, sorry. A: No, I didn’t mean you shouldn’t laugh... I really want to know what you found funny Intelli...