Issues in English Pronunciation Teaching: Turkish-English Interlanguage Case

ISBN-13: 9783631819807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 188 str.

Sinan Bayraktaroglu

Spis treści

Introduction - Part A: Background issues - 1. Teaching pronunciation: a neglected area - Part B: The classification of pronunciation difficulties - 2. A model for the classification of pronunciation difficulties - Part C: Turkish-English interlanguage talk and Lingua Franca Core targets - 3. The consonantal inventory - 4. Phonetic requirements - 5. Consonant clusters: word initially and word medially - 6. Vowel sounds - 7. The rhotic [r] and intervocalic /t/ - 8. Word stress - 9. Sentence stress - 10. Criticisms of the Lingua Franca Core - Part D: How do EIL and EFL relate to the CEFR? - 11. The impact of the CEFR - Appendix 1: Orthographic representations of Turkish phonemes with their variable allophones - Appendix 2: Orthographic representations of English vowels, diphthongs and consonants - Appendix 3: Turkish consonants - Appendix 4: English consonants - Appendix 5: Turkish and English vowels - Appendix 6: Empirical data and procedures -

O autorze

Professor Sinan Bayraktaroglu was educated at Talas and Tarsus American Schools in Turkey. He received his BA in English Language & Literature and Ottoman History at Ankara University, MA in Linguistics and ELT at Leeds University, and PhD in Applied Linguistics and ELT at the University of London Institute of Education. He lectured in Turkish Linguistics and Culture at Cambridge University for five years as a lector and was matriculated with MA status as a senior member of the university. He had been a senior lecturer in General Linguistics & Phonetics at Ulster University before he took up the position to be the founding director of The Cambridge Centre for Languages at Sawston Hall in Cambridge, where he served for twenty-two years. He has been working very closely with John Trim for many years, who is the architect and brainchild of CEFR. Since 2008, he has been taking appointments at 12 different State and Foundation universities in Turkey, gaining the Turkish experience while at the same time researching and publishing for the Turkish media about the past and present status quo of ELT in Higher Education in Turkey today. He was an elected fellow of Royal Society of Arts and Institute of Linguists in the UK and was awarded the State Medal of the Republic of Turkey for Outstanding Services (T.C Devlet Üstün Hizmet Madalyasi) in the year 2000 by President Süleyman Demirel.