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Ros-Abaurrea, Alejandro – Hispania, 2023
The present article aims to spur interest in the pedagogical potential of translating musicalized texts, a genre that for a long time has remained on the periphery of Applied Translation Studies. First, it provides a broad overview of the various theoretical perspectives that the academic community has had throughout history on the translation of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Music, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
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Campfield, Dorota E.; Murphy, Victoria A. – Language Learning Journal, 2017
This paper reports on an intervention study with young Polish beginners (mean age: 8 years, 3 months) learning English at school. It seeks to identify whether exposure to rhythmic input improves knowledge of word order and function words. The "prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis", relevant in developmental psycholinguistics, provided the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Suprasegmentals, Teaching Methods
Tice, Bradley S. – 1997
Metrical phonology, a linguistic process of phonological stress assessment and diagrammatic simplification of sentence and word stress, is discussed as it is found in the English and German languages. The objective is to promote use of metrical phonology as a tool for enhancing instruction in stress patterns in words and sentences, particularly in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, German, Language Patterns
Faber, David – IRAL, 1986
Presents some reasons why more emphasis should be placed on the mastery of the rhythmic features of the target language in foreign language teaching. An account of an important recent theoretical contribution to the description of the principles underlying English speech rhythm is included. (SED)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Intonation, Language Processing
Poliquin, Gaetane – 1988
A discussion of the use of songs to teach French as a second language focuses on the value of songs in teaching aspects of pronunciation. An introductory section describes the benefits of songs as instructional material, particularly to impart cultural information about Quebec to Canadian anglophones. Three sections outline justifications for the…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
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Sajavaara, Kari; Dufva, Hannele – International Journal of English Studies, 2001
Gives a summary of the theoretical approaches to the role of phonetics and phonology in language learning and teaching as developed by the Finnish-English cross-language project at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Analysis was extended over the chains of connected speech to deal with all the phenomena that give rhythm in speech. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Ekdawi, Sarah – TEANGA: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Use of poetry in advanced college-level classes of English as a second language is discussed, focusing on the oral (acoustic) texture of poems as contrasted with their syntactic, lexical, or figurative qualities. Discussion begins with the characteristics and objectives of the learners in question and the basis in both literary and linguistic…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Applied Linguistics, Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions
Local, J. K., Ed.; Warner, A. R., Ed. – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
These 14 articles on aspects of linguistics include the following: "Economy and Optionality: Interpretations of Subjects in Italian" (David Adger); "Collaborative Repair in EFL Classroom Talk" (Zara Iles); "A Timing Model for Fast French" (Eric Keller, Brigitte Zellner); "Another Travesty of Representation:…
Descriptors: African Languages, Articulation (Speech), Autism, Black Dialects