Communicative Activities in Our Phonetics and Phonology Class

San Miguel de Tucumán

Conferencia; XXXVI FAAPI 2011 Communicative Language Teaching and Learning Revisited; 2011

Federación Argentina de Asociaciones de Profesores de Inglés

In this work, we will first refer to Discourse Intonation (Brazil 1980; Brazil 1985) as the theoretical background that supports our instruction. Next, we will present some of the communicative activities we use in our Phonetics and Phonology I classes and show how these work as stepping stones to help students unveil the communicative value that intonation has in English. Then, we will speak about the role of students and instructors during such activities and the work done in class that leads to freer communication tasks in which, although students are given preparation time, they are encouraged to speak freely without any kind of script that limits spontaneity. We will finally point out the benefits of these activities and the positive results.