Kitakyushu JALT:

Ambiguity, Neutralization, and Telling the Truth: A phonetic approach to the teaching of EFL listening comprehension

Date: Saturday, April 9th, 2005 Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Speaker: Hiroshi Matsusaka

Description:
One of the factors that make listening comprehension difficult for EFL learners is the discrepancy between a piece of English as it is orthographically represented and the same piece of English as it is phonetically realized. Thus, when we teachers give our students listening comprehension training, we sometimes appear to them to be telling them that a sound is present where there are none, or no sounds are present where there is one, or a sound is present where some other sound is present. My talk will focus on (a) cases of sound change in natural speech, (b) the 'phonetic ambiguity' that may occur as a result of such sound change, and (c) how we can make use of information of this sort to prevent confusion on the part of learners as we teach listening comprehension.

Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Kitakyushu JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1000 yen

Venue: Kitakyushu International Conference Center, room 31

Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

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