Voice and Mirroring in L2 Pronunciation Instruction - Darren LaScotte
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Theories of Second-Language Acquisition
Voice and Mirroring in L2 Pronunciation Instruction - Darren LaScotte
Darren LaScotte [+]
University of Minnesota
Darren LaScotte is a Teaching Specialist in the Minnesota English Language Program at the University of Minnesota. Over the last decade, his scholarship has focused on second language acquisition and use, and on the resulting implications for teaching and learning.
Colleen Meyers [+]
University of Minnesota
Colleen Meyers holds an MA in TESOL from the University of Minnesota, where she consulted with international teaching assistants and faculty members. She has presented workshops at TESOL, PSLLT, and AAAL, and she was awarded a Fulbright to do teacher training in Turkey. In addition to co-authoring several pronunciation textbooks, Colleen wrote the segment on “Mirroring” for the “Pronunciation for Teachers” website (pronunciationforteachers.com).
Elaine Tarone [+]
University of Minnesota
Elaine Tarone is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita and retired Director of the Center of Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota.
Description
Chapter 2 reviews the dominance of a bottom-up approach to research on L2 pronunciation that predominated in the second half of the 20 th century. It was structuralist and oriented to segmental analysis, prioritized native-speaker accent, and minimized social factors in speaking. An early exception was instruction for International Teaching Assistants (ITAs).