English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?
The recent (2018) Companion Volume to the Common European Framework offers an overhaul of many of the scales of descriptors, including, notably, phonology. A single, skeletal, scale for ‘phonological control’ is replaced by three scales, describing overall control, sound articulation, and prosodi...
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The recent (2018) Companion Volume to the Common European Framework offers an overhaul of many of the scales of descriptors, including, notably, phonology. A single, skeletal, scale for ‘phonological control’ is replaced by three scales, describing overall control, sound articulation, and prosodic features. In each of these, the focus has become intelligibility, rather than proximity to a native speaker accent. In this article I examine the development of pronunciation teaching since the communicative revolution, and the rise of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in which intelligibility is crucial. The article concludes with a reflection on how (if at all) the revised framework could inform an ELF aware assessment of pronunciation.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2a1d3c3f3854c9c9acaa1024aec0c9b2023-10-30T08:14:34ZengFondazione Università Ca’ FoscariEducazione Linguistica Language Education2280-67922021-11-0110310.30687/ELLE/2280-6792/2021/03/003journal_article_6729English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?Newbold, David0Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia The recent (2018) Companion Volume to the Common European Framework offers an overhaul of many of the scales of descriptors, including, notably, phonology. A single, skeletal, scale for ‘phonological control’ is replaced by three scales, describing overall control, sound articulation, and prosodic features. In each of these, the focus has become intelligibility, rather than proximity to a native speaker accent. In this article I examine the development of pronunciation teaching since the communicative revolution, and the rise of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in which intelligibility is crucial. The article concludes with a reflection on how (if at all) the revised framework could inform an ELF aware assessment of pronunciation. http://doi.org/10.30687/ELLE/2280-6792/2021/03/003Accent. Assessment. Common European Framework. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Non-native speaker (NNS). Phonology. Pronunciation |
| spellingShingle | Newbold, David English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation? Educazione Linguistica Language Education Accent. Assessment. Common European Framework. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Non-native speaker (NNS). Phonology. Pronunciation |
| title | English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation? |
| title_full | English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation? |
| title_fullStr | English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation? |
| title_full_unstemmed | English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation? |
| title_short | English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation? |
| title_sort | english lingua franca new parameters for the teaching and testing of english pronunciation |
| topic | Accent. Assessment. Common European Framework. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Non-native speaker (NNS). Phonology. Pronunciation |
| url | http://doi.org/10.30687/ELLE/2280-6792/2021/03/003 |
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