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ОЕ ОБР
АЗОВАНИЕ
Teaching English in Russia has certain complications
in this respect. Firstly, Russia is a vast country with
a specific geographical location. It implies that the
number of foreigners
speaking English is low and
English learners do not have enough opportunities
to experience communication with native/non-native
speakers. Secondly, most of the materials are recorded
with a southern English standard accent or RP (received
pronunciation). All these cause comprehension problems
not only in face-to-face communication but also when
listening to lectures/presentations online (TED Talks).
Suggestion 2
Aim: To increase the comprehension level of
a non-native accent (Appendix 2)
Procedure:
– find a TED Talk with a speaker who has a strong
non-native accent
– explain to learners that non-native speakers in
comparison with native speakers use different
stress patterns
in words and sentences
– play the recording (one sentence from a TED Talk
with a non-native accent and the same sentence
with a British one) so that learners could compare
the difference between two accents and discuss
(3a)
– play the recording again and ask learners to listen
carefully to the pronunciation of the underlined
word (3a)
– ask learners about the difference in the pronunciation
(e.g. stressed syllable) (3a) (noticing)
– play another recording of one sentence recorded
similarly by a non-native speaker and a native one,
ask students to underline
stressed words in two
variants, discuss why it is so (3b)
– later give students a passage from the same TED
Talk and ask them to fill in the gaps with missing
words (3c)
– play the recording again
– discuss the importance of understanding non-
native speakers
Evaluation:
The ability to comprehend accents requires much
of noticing and drawing parallels between a native
speaker and a non-native one.
Noticing process
requires great attention and effort to understand
how consonants/vowels, sentence stress and
intonation are organized in a non-native speech. In
this way learners can improve the comprehension
level.
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