TY - BOOK ID - 113176254 TI - Phonetics in language teaching AU - Liu, Di AU - Jones, Tamara AU - Reed, Marnie PY - 2022 SN - 1108998380 1108998569 1108992013 1108994350 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Phonetics KW - Study and teaching. KW - Pronunciation. KW - Study and teaching KW - Germanic languages KW - Foreign countries. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:113176254 AB - This Element explores ways in which language teachers, especially teachers of English, can benefit from knowledge of phonetics. It also offers recommendations for introducing and improving pronunciation teaching in the classroom. While hoping that this Element is useful to instructors of all languages, the majority of the examples comes from North American English (NAE) and the English language classroom. At the same time, the Element acknowledges that English language teaching is rather different from the teaching of other languages, since nowadays, most interactions around the world in English do not involve a native speaker, and use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has become widespread. Teachers of English should be aware that their students may not want to mimic all aspects of native-speaker pronunciation; since some native-speaker patterns of speech, such as the extensive simplification and omission of sounds may not be helpful in enhancing intelligibility. ER -