Open AccessDeveloping intonation skills in English: A systemic functional linguistics perspective
Author(s) -
Renata Cardinali,
María Celina Barbeito
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
global journal of foreign language teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2301-2595
DOI - 10.18844/gjflt.v8i1.3222
Subject(s) - intonation (linguistics) , psychology , linguistics , tone (literature) , perspective (graphical) , systemic functional linguistics , foreign language , reading (process) , pedagogy , mathematics education , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence
This paper explores whether the teaching of English intonation within the framework of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) contributes to the development of intonation skills of Argentine Spanish speakers to become teachers of English as a Foreign Language. The findings of the study that focused on the oral production of students in the first course of phonetics in the programme offered at the National University of Rio Cuarto are presented. This paper reports the analysis of recordings of first-year students reading an English text aloud and the results obtained in the pre- and post-tests reveal that there was improvement in students’ oral production such as in tone system considering the three systems of intonation in SFL after a series of training sessions. Hence, this approach seems promising for the development of intonation skills and oral skills in foreign language learners. These results favour for teacher trainers as well as for trainers
Keywords: EFL, intonation, systemic functional linguistics, teacher training.