Submitted by tomash on 18 November, 2009 - 09:07.
IFA, EFL, RA-Z, PDI: phonolapsological annotation for teaching pronunciation
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IFA Friday meeting, Nov 20th 2009, Profesor Włodzimierz Sobkowiak & Wiesława Ferlacka (CB)
Phonetic Difficulty Index (PDI) is an algorithm phonetically transcribing orthographic text and tagging it with sixty-one expected Polglish pronunciation error tags: phonemic, graphophonemic, allophonic, morphological, accentual, sandhi, etc. The resulting resource can be used for learning, teaching, testing, materials preparation, textbook evaluation, dictionary compilation, syllabus design and in many other capacities in EFL pronunciation pedagogy. In this presentation we show examples of how PDI can be used in (i) phonolapsologically analyzing and evaluating graded readers ("Reading A-Z") targeting native American children, but adaptable for EFL, (ii) providing well-defined resources to help meet IFA pronunciation syllabus goals, such as "the student should know the phonemic shape of words within a basic English vocabulary, including word stress".
Implicit and explicit L2 grammar
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Paweł Scheffler & Marcin Cinciała
This paper reports an empirical study which examines to what extent learners can identify and understand the grammatical structures they produce when they speak spontaneously. In the study, twenty upper intermediate Polish learners of English were interviewed in English by the researchers. The structures used accurately by each learner were isolated and each of the participants was then administered a separate test. The task in the test was first to identify correct sentences, and then to provide the relevant grammar rules. The results are interpreted both in terms of SLA theory and their pedagogical implications.
