INTONATION:IMPLICATION AND APPLICATION IN TEFL IN CHINA

• 来源期刊: 中国应用语言学：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 2001,（3）
• 页码范围: 33-35
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: H319.3

摘要

This paper stresses the significant pedagogical function ofintonation in spoken English.It also provides a brief review onits current application in teaching English as a foreign language(TEFL)in China.Effective intonation teaching not only has aneffect on facilitating an acquisition of"intelligiblepronunciation"but also has an underlying implication formaking a"whole-person learner involvement"in learningprocess.This paper outlines an approach practiced in Chinatoday.It is based on the basic nuclear tone patterns proposed byQuirk and others in order to promote oral English teachingthrough intonation awareness training.With the learners’attention transferred from segmental sound or meaning tosuprasegmental tone(intonation),the melodic feature of thelanguage is most salient,which greatly motivates the learner’sinterest,involvement and autonomy,therefore,accelerating anacquisition of oral communicative competence.