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Listening to Spoken English.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2016.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Applied linguistics and language study.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the second edition; Transcription conventions; Chapter 1 The need to teach the comprehension of spoken English; 1.1 'Slow colloquial English' and normal speech; 1.2 'Testing' or 'teaching' comprehension?; 1.2.1 The nature of comprehension; 1.2.2 The processes of comprehension; 1.3 The accent of English described in this book; Chapter 2 'Ideal' segments, syllables and words; 2.1 The phoneme; 2.2 The consonants of English; 2.2.1 Place of articulation; 2.2.2 Manner of articulation.
- 2.2.3 'Voicing' and 'voicelessness'2.3 The vowels of English; 2.3.1 The transcription of vowels; 2.4 The 'ideal' syllable and the 'ideal' word; Chapter 3 The function of rhythm; 3.1 The rhythmic structure of English; 3.1.1 Stressed and unstressed syllables; 3.1.2 Pause: 'rests' in rhythm; 3.2 The function of stress; 3.2.1 Word stress; 3.2.2 Stressed words in sentences; Chapter 4 Patterns of simplification in informal speech; 4.1 Adjustment to surroundings; 4.2 Elision; 4.3 Word boundary markers; 4.4 Consonants and vowels in the stream of speech; 4.5 Reduction in visual cues.
- Chapter 5 The function of intonation5.1 The 'ideal' organization of tone groups; 5.2 The 'ideal' placing of the tonic; 5.3 Tone group and tonic in spontaneous speech; 5.4 Pitch direction; Chapter 6 Paralinguistic features; 6.1 Pitch span; 6.2 Placing in voice range; 6.3 Direction of pitch; 6.4 Tempo; 6.5 Loudness; 6.6 Voice setting; 6.7 Articulatory setting; 6.8 Articulatory precision ; 6.9 Timing of segments and syllables; 6.10 Lip setting; 6.11 Pause; 6.12 Constructing a framework; 6.13 Using the paralinguistic features; Chapter 7 Teaching listening comprehension.
- 7.1 Identifying the problem7.1.1 Recognizing the code; 7.1.2 Processing the complete text; 7.1.3 Purposeful listening; 7.1.4 The social context of listening; 7.2 Combining the approaches; 7,2.1 'Bottom up processing': the phonological code; 7.2.2 'Top down processing': using the context to make prediction; 7.2.3 Making inferences; 7.3 Methodology; 7.3.1 Using phonological cues; 7.3.2 Learning to use contextual information; 7.3.3 Drawing constrained inferences; 7.4 Conclusion: the active listener; Appendix; Works quoted from in Chapter 6; Bibliography; Index.