Prática da pronúncia em língua inglesa dentro e fora da sala de aula

Autores

  • Angélica Carlet Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
  • Hanna Kivistö-de Souza UFSC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2018v71n3p99

Resumo

Os aprendizes espanhol / catalães de inglês como língua estrangeira (EFL) participaram de um período de instruções formais (FI) combinado com instrução de pronúncia explícita, que consistiu em abordagens teóricas e práticas da fonética segmentar inglesa, bem como uma análise contrastiva entre as primeiras línguas dos participantes e a língua alvo, o inglês. A habilidade dos alunos de EFL para perceber e produzir vogais L2 foi avaliada antes e após o tratamento instrucional de 8 semanas. Os resultados mostram que os aprendizes EFL melhoraram significativamente a percepção de sons de vogais incorporados em palavras reais e não. No entanto, nenhuma melhoria na produção foi encontrada como resultado das instruções recebidas. Embora esses resultados sugerem que as habilidades perceptivas dos alunos podem ser melhoradas com a instrução dirigida pelo professor, a quantidade e a disponibilidade de instruções explícitas de pronúncia não são suficientes para modificar a produção de fala dos alunos. Assim, resultados ótimos exigem que os alunos continuem aprendendo fora do contexto da sala de aula. Com este objetivo, este artigo apresenta duas atividades autônomas desenvolvidas para aumentar a conscientização dos alunos sobre a fonologia: Tarefa de Comparação de Pronúncia L1-L2 e um Questionário de Autoconhecimento Fonológico.

Biografia do Autor

Angélica Carlet, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Professor of English linguistics and head of English at the faculty of Education at Universitat Internacional de
Catalunya (UIC), in Barcelona, Spain. Sheholds a PhD in English philology and a Master’s Degree in second
language acquisition from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). he inluence of one’s native language
phonology in the acquisition of a second language constitutes the main area of her research interest along with
the efect of formal instruction and stay abroad programmes on participants’ oral skills.

Hanna Kivistö-de Souza, UFSC

Holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Barcelona and is an Assistant Professor at the
Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Her research focuses on L2 speech acquisition by looking into the
individual cognitive variables that underlie L2 speech perception and production.

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