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English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?

David Newbold    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

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abstract

The recent (2018) Companion Volume to the Common European Framework offers an overhaul of many of the scales of descriptors, including, notably, phonology. A single, skeletal, scale for ‘phonological control’ is replaced by three scales, describing overall control, sound articulation, and prosodic features. In each of these, the focus has become intelligibility, rather than proximity to a native speaker accent. In this article I examine the development of pronunciation teaching since the communicative revolution, and the rise of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in which intelligibility is crucial. The article concludes with a reflection on how (if at all) the revised framework could inform an ELF aware assessment of pronunciation.

Published
Nov. 22, 2021
Accepted
Sept. 15, 2021
Submitted
Nov. 27, 2020
Language
EN

Keywords: Pronunciation • Accent • Phonology • Non-native speaker (NNS) • Assessment • Common European Framework • English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/ELLE/2280-6792/2021/03/003

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