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Peer reviewedCernyak, Susan E.; Reimer, Robert C. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
In lieu of language lab attendance, second-year language students had the option of attending a drama lab. This program has met with great success. The objective of the lab is to improve skills in pronunciation, intonation, and stress patterns. Also, an environment is created in which the student feels at home with the target language. (PJM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dramatic Play, Intonation, Language Usage
McNerney, Maureen; Mendelsohn, David – TESL Talk, 1987
Provides a set of priorities and learning activities for a short-term English as a second language pronunciation course. These include: stress/unstress, major sentence stress, intonation, and linking and pausing. (CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Intonation, Learning Activities, Pronunciation Instruction
Naiman, Neil – TESL Talk, 1987
The communicative approach used in the teaching of second languages is also effective in teaching pronunciation of English as a second language. Communicative principles and activities in the areas of consonants and vowels, contractions, recued expressions and linking, suprasegmentals, and monitoring are discussed. (CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Consonants, English (Second Language), Language Fluency
Archibald, John – TESL Talk, 1987
Drama can act as a bridge between the classroom and the real world in teaching students to communicate in a second language. Teaching techniques using drama to help improve students' pronunciation of English as a second language are described, as they relate to articulation, pitch, volume, rate, and variety. (CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Communicative Competence (Languages), Dramatic Play, English (Second Language)
Brumfit, C. J., Ed. – 1983
A collection of papers concerning the application of language studies to the instruction and promotion of English literature appreciation in foreign countries includes an introduction by Neil Gilroy-Scott and these essays: "The Deviant Language of Poetry" (H. G. Widdowson); "Approaches to the Study of Literature: A Practitioner's View" (H. L. B.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions
