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La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE: Integrating pronunciation in the Spanish language classroom
Editado por Zsuzsanna Bárkányi, M. Mar Galindo Merino y Aarón Pérez-Bernabeu
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 42] 2024
► pp. 89–102

Chapter 6
L2 pronunciation in the spotlight

From phonological awareness to oral production in communicative tasks

| Universitat de Barcelona,
| Universitat de Barcelona,
The present chapter puts forward several suggestions on how to incorporate the pronunciation component into the Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) class, ranging from phonological awareness raising activities to spontaneous speaking tasks. These proposals stem from the renewed interest in determining pronunciation instruction effects in classroom settings. Specifically, recent second language (L2) speech acquisition research has shown that an explicit focus on pronunciation in communicative tasks seems to lead to more accurate L2 segmental perception and production. Moreover, as in the new descriptors of the CEFR Companion Volume, this chapter prioritizes comprehensibility as the ultimate goal in the integration of pronunciation into communicative tasks.
Keywords: Spanish FL pronunciation, comprehensibility, phonological awareness, oral production, communicative tasks
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Research insights into L2 pronunciation development
  • 3.Integrating pronunciation into the communicative language class: Sample tasks
  • 4.Future directions for incorporating the pronunciation component into L2 communicative language classes
  • Author queries
  • References
  • Appendix
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