New Approach to Teaching Japanese Pronunciation in the Digital Era

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3967
dc.contributor.author	Motoko Ueyama
dc.title	New Approach to Teaching Japanese Pronunciation in the Digital Era. Challenges and Practices
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Pronunciation has been a black hole in the L2 Japanese classroom on account of a lack of class time, teacher’s confidence, and consciousness of the need to teach pronunciation, among other reasons. The absence of pronunciation instruction is reported to result in fossilized pronunciation errors, communication problems, and learner frustration. With an intention of making a contribution to improve such circumstances, this paper aims at three goals. First, it discusses the importance, necessity, and effectiveness of teaching prosodic aspects of Japanese pronunciation from an early stage in acquisition. Second, it shows that Japanese prosody is challenging because of its typological rareness, regardless of the L1 backgrounds of learners. Third and finally, it introduces a new approach to teaching L2 pronunciation with the goal of developing L2 comprehensibility by focusing on essential prosodic features, which is followed by discussions on key issues concerning how to implement the new approach both inside and outside the classroom in the digital era.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Linguistics and Language Education
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-07-03
dc.dateAccepted	2020-05-14
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-02-14
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-429-5/new-approach-to-teaching-japanese-pronunciation-in/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-428-8/010
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-429-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-428-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Teaching Japanese pronunciation
dc.subject	Teaching Japanese pronunciation
dc.subject	Teaching Japanese prosody
dc.subject	Teaching Japanese prosody

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New Approach to Teaching Japanese Pronunciation in the Digital Era

Challenges and Practices

Ueyama Motoko University of Bologna, Italy

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abstract

Pronunciation has been a black hole in the L2 Japanese classroom on account of a lack of class time, teacher’s confidence, and consciousness of the need to teach pronunciation, among other reasons. The absence of pronunciation instruction is reported to result in fossilized pronunciation errors, communication problems, and learner frustration. With an intention of making a contribution to improve such circumstances, this paper aims at three goals. First, it discusses the importance, necessity, and effectiveness of teaching prosodic aspects of Japanese pronunciation from an early stage in acquisition. Second, it shows that Japanese prosody is challenging because of its typological rareness, regardless of the L1 backgrounds of learners. Third and finally, it introduces a new approach to teaching L2 pronunciation with the goal of developing L2 comprehensibility by focusing on essential prosodic features, which is followed by discussions on key issues concerning how to implement the new approach both inside and outside the classroom in the digital era.

Pubblicato

03 Luglio 2020

Accettato

14 Maggio 2020

Presentato

14 Febbraio 2020

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-429-5

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-428-8

Keywords: Teaching Japanese prosody • Teaching Japanese pronunciation

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-428-8/010

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