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English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insightsEdited by Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Alice Henderson and Jonás Fouz-González
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 19] 2021
► pp. 197–222
Chapter 9Rationale and design of a study of foreign-accented academic
English
Dan Frost | Grenoble Alpes University
Alice Henderson | Grenoble Alpes University
This chapter explores the intersection of English
Medium Instruction (EMI) and Foreign-Accented Speech (FAS),
particularly in French higher education, while outlining the
developmental phases of the nascent IP-CAFES research project.
Pertinent research into cognitive load, accentedness, and prosody is
summarised before we describe the creation of a specialised corpus
and an experimental protocol using content from that corpus.
Pedagogical implications are also addressed, for both speaker and
listener training.
Keywords: accent perception tests, comprehensibility, English Medium Instruction, foreign-accented speech, interphonology, prosody, suprasegmental features
Article outline
- Introduction
- Context
- European EMI: Speakers and listeners
- Complex learning, cognitive load, and accentedness
- Prosody and comprehensibility
- Language transfer and its impact
- IP-CAFES project
- Research questions and hypotheses
- Collecting the corpus recordings
- Selecting and creating the stimuli
- Creating and administering the perception tests
- Using qualitative and quantitative data
- Pedagogical implications
- Course content and format
- Speaker training
- Listener training
- Conclusion
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Notes -
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Published online: 13 October 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.19.09fro
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.19.09fro
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