Suprasegmental phonology:
Pronunciation skill teaching
Integrating theory with practice
Handbook
(2da edition)
Aim of the handbook
The purpose of this pronunciation handbook is mainly to help students rise their awareness of the role and importance of developing pronunciation skills to be able to comunicate effectively in both local and intarnational contexts. This handbook consists of a set of four modules: Voice Quality, Stress and Rhythm, Intonation and English as Lingua Franca. Each module contains a sequence of comprehensible tasks, each aiming at developing particular phonological feature. This handbook is intended to bridge the gap between theory and productive practice