Chapter 8
The intonation contour of non-finality revisited
Implications for EFL teaching
It is well documented that in English falling
contours are associated with final statements and rising contours
with yes-no questions and continuation. Our analyses of the speech
of native speakers show that falls dominate in read speech and are
widely used non-finally. This has important pedagogical implications
for EFL teaching. To help French learners avoid pronouncing too many
rises, a visualisation technique is promoted to show the difference
between the French and English intonation systems. We also show how
relevant a map task can be for the practising and learning of
intonation contours. Hopefully this chapter will provide learners
with clues to gain greater competence as listeners and speakers, and
teachers with tools useful and adaptable in the language class.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Theoretical framework and previous research
- The functions of intonation contours
- Rising contours and speaking styles
- Hypothesis and possible pedagogical implications
- Corpus and method
- Results and discussion
- Tonal distribution in the corpus
- Results per speaker
- Pedagogical implications
- The visualisation of prosody
- The map task as a support for authentic oral
production
- Conclusion
-
Notes
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References
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