How Intonation Should Be Taught In the Classroom
Despite the abundance of current research and varied practical recommendations for teaching the communicative role of intonation in language, published materials for teaching intonation, with few exceptions, closely resemble both each other and materials published before the advent of communicative language teaching.This paper addresses relevant research and discusses fundamental issues that seem to be affecting textbook treatments of intonation.After defining intonation, I present findings from current intonational research.Then I examine some of the problems with current textbook treatments of intonation, especially in how materials describe the functions of intonation and in the materials lack of communicative purpose.Next, I offer another approach to teaching intonation. Finally, I conclude that intonation can take its rightful place as part of a communicative approach to language teaching only if its communicative value is made obvious and if it is used for communication rather than pattern practice.
communicative approach context intonation teaching
Sun Lichun Tang Yanling
Department of Foreign Languages Changchun Institute of Technology,CCIT Changchun,China
国际会议
成都
英文
1562-1565
2011-07-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）