When assessing EFL students in comparison to a framework based on native-like proficiency, speaking is a controversial issue to be tested in a world where most speakers of English are non-natives. In these contexts, the native-like ability has been recently questioned towards an intercultural ultimate goal, given that many aspects of the speaking…

Teaching pronunciation in language courses has traditionally followed two approaches: the intuitive-imitative approach and the analytic-linguistic approach. The former consists in reproducing the target language on the basis of a good model without any explicit instruction. The latter proposes reflection on pronunciation features through such tools…

Introducción:El mundo globalizado de hoy ha afectado la educación en general y la enseñanza de segundas lenguas en particular, dando lugar al auge de la pluriculturalidad en el aula. El contexto áulico es el reflejo de una sociedad con una realidad pluricultural en la que los individuos intercambian aspectos culturales en armonía, tolerancia y…

En este trabajo se analiza la entonación como un fenómeno de interfaz entre la fonología entonativa y la pragmática. Para el análisis pragmático, se recurre a la Teoría de la Relevancia (Sperber & Wilson 1995, 2004) y su aplicación al estudio del fenómeno prosódico (Wilson & Wharton 2006). El análisis de la prosodia se realiza en el marco…

Abstract:The aim of this work is to identify the difficulties that Spanish learners of English may have when confronted with the L2 intonation. The different tone choices made by native speakers of Spanish in North Patagonia, Argentina, are analysed in the light of the Autosegmental-Metrical framework (LADD, 1996) and the Relevance Theory (SPERBER…