Affiliation:
1. Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Education University of Iowa Iowa City Iowa USA
2. Department of French and Italian Brigham Young University Provo Utah USA
3. Department of French and Italian University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
Abstract
AbstractAs an overwhelming amount of research has demonstrated that educator preparation programs do not adequately prepare instructors to teach pronunciation, this study aims to help teachers of foreign languages to implement and improve pronunciation instruction (PI) in their classroom by adapting PACE (Presentation, Attention, Co‐construction, and Extension), the commonly used model for grammar instruction. The present study explores the efficacy of this model in improving learners' ability (1) to associate target phonemes with the appropriate phonological context and (2) to produce target phonemes distinctly in a spontaneous speech task. Data suggest that a modified PACE model for PI can be effective in both intermediate‐ and advanced‐level courses. The possibility of adapting an existing and well‐known method for teaching grammar would allow teachers to implement and/or improve their PI with minimal additional training.
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