Rivista | EL.LE
Fascicolo | 10 | 3 | 2021
Articolo | English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?

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

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.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 27 Novembre 2020 | Accettato: 15 Settembre 2021 | Pubblicato 22 Novembre 2021 | Lingua: en

Keywords AssessmentCommon European FrameworkAccentNon-native speaker (NNS)English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)PhonologyPronunciation


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