Voice and Mirroring in L2 Pronunciation Instruction - Darren LaScotte
Top-Down Research on Interlanguage Phonology
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
The top-down orientation to research and teaching of IL phonology is reviewed in Chapter 3. “Native accent” as a focus is replaced by two goals: intelligibility and an accent that expresses an L2 learner’s identity. Supporting research shows interrelationships between pronunciation and prosodic features, non-verbal communication, and pragmatics, all tied to social context.