Teaching Pronunciation by Marianne Celce-Murcia

Teaching Pronunciation by Marianne Celce-Murcia

This thorough book, drawing on theory and practice, offers a comprehensive treatment of pronunciation pedagogy. Teaching Pronunciation offers current and prospective teachers of English a comprehensive treatment of pronunciation pedagogy, drawing on current theory and practice. An overview of teaching issues from the perspective of different methodologies and second language acquisition research is provided. It has a thorough grounding in the sound system of North American English, and contains insights into how this sound system intersects with listening, morphology, and spelling. It also contains diagnostic tools, assessment measures, and suggestions for syllabus design. Follow-up exercises guide teachers in developing a range of classroom activities within a communicative framework.

'This book deserves to become the bible and workshop manual of teachers of American English' IATEFL SIG 'Speak Out' Jan 99

Celce-Murcia, Marianne: - Marianne Celce-Murcia (Ph.D. in Linguistics, 1972) is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics and TESL at the University of California, Los Angeles, where for 30 years she taught primarily graduate students, preparing to be language teachers and researchers. Beyond her work at UCLA, she taught in and administered English language programs in Nigeria (1964-1966), Egypt (Fall, 1980), Canada (Summer, 1983), and Armenia (2003-2007). She has lectured and led workshops all over the U.S. and in many other countries as well. In addition to her co-authorship (with Diane Larsen-Freeman) on the three editions of The Grammar Book, she is co-editor (with Donna Brinton and Marguerite Ann Snow) of the fourth edition of Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (2014) and series co-editor (with Maggie Sokolik) of the five-volume, content-based Grammar Connection series (2008-2009), all with Cengage Learning, who (as Heinle & Heinle) presented her with their lifetime achievement award in 1997. At UCLA Marianne was honored for distinguished teaching both as a graduate student (1964) and as a professor (1976).

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ISBN 13	9780521406949
ISBN 10	0521406943
Title	Teaching Pronunciation
Author	Marianne Celce-Murcia
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1996-10-13
Number of pages	447
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