Rajiv Rao - Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation: From Description to Pedagogy

Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation: From Description to Pedagogy is a resource that encourages Spanish teachers and curriculum designers to increase their incorporation of pronunciation into the classroom. Combining theory and practical guidance, it will help language practitioners integrate the teaching of Spanish pronunciation with confidence and effectiveness. The international group of scholars across its 15 chapters is made up of individuals with well-established research records and training in best pedagogical practices.

Key features:

A range of topics including vowels, various classes of consonants, prosody, the use of technology, the role of orthography, the importance of both perception and production, individual learner differences, and teacher training;

Overviews of descriptive, empirical, and acquisition-based research associated with each aspect of the Spanish sound system;

Guidance on the difficulties that teachers face when incorporating the teaching of pronunciation into the classroom;

Clear explanations of concepts, accompanied by an abundance of concrete examples and references;

Multiple sample activities and lesson plans tailored to different levels and backgrounds of students;

A bilingual glossary of terms to help the content reach the widest audience possible.

Written in a clear and accessible manner, Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation is an essential resource for teachers of Spanish at all levels. It is also an excellent reference book for researchers and both undergraduate and graduate university students interested in Spanish phonetics and language acquisition.

Rajiv Rao is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation

From Description to Pedagogy

Edited by Rajiv Rao

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From Description to Pedagogy

Edited by Rajiv Rao

First published 2019

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Names: Rao, Rajiv, 1979- editor.

Title: Key issues in the teaching of Spanish pronunciation : from description to pedagogy / edited by Rajiv Rao.

Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge advances in Spanish language teaching | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018051543 | ISBN 9781138954601 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138954618 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315666839 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Spanish languagePronunciationStudy and teaching. | Spanish languagePronunciation by foreign speakers. | Spanish language Study and teachingForeign speakers.

Classification: LCC PC4137 .K49 2019 | DDC 461/.5071dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018051543

ISBN: 978-1-138-95460-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-95461-8 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-66683-9 (ebk)

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Amanda Boomershine is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She publishes in the areas of phonetics, sociolinguistics, and heritage language studies. She is currently engaged in a collaborative project on the sound systems of heritage, monolingual, and bilingual speakers of Spanish.

Sonia Colina is Professor of Spanish and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Arizona. She has published numerous chapters and refereed articles on Spanish phonology, with particular emphasis on syllable structure. She is the author of Spanish Phonology: A Syllabic Perspective and co-editor of Fonologa generativa contempornea de la lengua espaola, Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, and Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected Proceedings of the 39th LSRL.

Carme de-la-Mota is tenured Lecturer at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, with degrees in both Catalan and Spanish Philology. Her research areas are the phonetics and phonology of prosody, teaching and learning prosody, public speaking, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. She is a team member of the projects Atlas interactivo de la entonacin del espaol and Sp_ToBI Training Materials, and is currently engaged in collaborative projects on oral competence and prosodic communication.