Teaching and Researching the Pronunciation of English: Studies in Honour of Włodzimierz Sobkowiak (Second Language Learning and Teaching)

The Book Contains Contributions From Practitioners And Theoreticians Who Explore The Pronunciation Of English From Various Perspectives: Phonetic, Phonological, Psycholinguistic And Sociolinguistic. In Accordance With The Unifying Theme Of The Volume, Individual Contributions Investigate The Characteristics Of A Foreign Accent, Its Production And Perception, Study The Development Of Methods And Techniques In Pronunciation Teaching, Evaluate Their Use In Classroom Materials And In The Classroom Itself, And Investigate The Conditions For Second Language Learning And Teaching From The Perspective Of Learners And Teachers. The Book Offers A Unique Combination Of A Scholarly Research With Practical Applications, Inspired Over The Years By The Work Of Professor Włodzimierz Sobkowiak, Who Has Researched Pronunciation Teaching And Pioneered Technology-oriented, Corpus-based Approaches To The Study Of English Pronunciation In Poland. Edited By Ewa Waniek-klimczak, Mirosław Pawlak. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Exploring Advanced Learners’ Beliefs About Pronunciation Instruction and Their Relationship with Attainment....Pages 3-22 ‘Polglish’ in Polish Eyes: What English Studies Majors Think About Their Pronunciation in English....Pages 23-34 Teaching English Phonetics with a Learner Response System....Pages 35-61 Teaching English Pronunciation Online to Swedish Primary-School Teachers....Pages 63-76 English Phonetic and Pronunciation Resources for Polish Learners in the Past and at Present....Pages 77-106 Good Servants but Poor Masters: On the Important Role of Textbooks in Teaching English Pronunciation....Pages 107-117 In Defense of the Usefulness of a Polish-Based Respelling Phonetic Transcription System in the Elementary to Lower-Intermediate EFL Classroom....Pages 119-135 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 What to Teach and What Not to Teach, Yet Again: On the Elusive Priorities for L2 English Phonetics....Pages 139-151 Compiling a Corpus-Based List of Words Commonly Mispronounced....Pages 153-167 Handling Global and Local English Pronunciation Errors....Pages 169-187 Factors Affecting Word Stress Recognition by Advanced Polish Learners of English....Pages 189-204 Vowel Dynamics for Polish Learners of English....Pages 205-217 A Personal Note on the Larynx as Articulator in English....Pages 219-222 Using FL Accent Imitation in L1 in Foreign-Language Speech Research....Pages 223-233 Teaching to Suppress Polglish Processes....Pages 235-247