ON THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH RHYTHM - THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES

Authors
CHELAFLORES B
Citation
B. Chelaflores, ON THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH RHYTHM - THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES, IRAL. International review of applied linguistics in language teaching, 32(3), 1994, pp. 232-242
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics","Education & Educational Research
Journal title
IRAL. International review of applied linguistics in language teaching → ACNP
ISSN journal
0019042X
Volume
32
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
232 - 242
Database
ISI
SICI code
0019-042X(1994)32:3<232:OTAOER>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
The inability to focus on the rhythmic pattern as a whole is suggested in this paper as one of the main deficiencies in teaching English rhy thm and partly responsible for a syllabic rhythm in the speech of the EFL learner. A technique is proposed in which the patterns are first i solated from their segmental phones and sequences with which they co-o ccur in language. This has been found to increase the learner's acuity in perceiving the same feature in normal language behaviour.