ON THE PHONETIC ASPECT OF TEACHING FRENCH

The article discusses the place of phonetics in teaching French. The importance of a theoretically based approach to the training of French sounds and proso-dy - the sequence of vowels under study to facilitate the consolidation of articulatory skills, the us-age of “base” sounds for teaching open a...

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Main Author: L.P. Morozova
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Language:deu
Published: Udmurt University Publishing Center 2024-12-01
Series:Многоязычие в образовательном пространстве
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Online Access:https://journals.udsu.ru/multilingualism/article/view/9432/7921
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description The article discusses the place of phonetics in teaching French. The importance of a theoretically based approach to the training of French sounds and proso-dy - the sequence of vowels under study to facilitate the consolidation of articulatory skills, the us-age of “base” sounds for teaching open and closed vowel series, the inclusion of the similarities and differences between the articulation of the target and native languages - is noted. The inventory of the articulatory features of the French sounds which ensure the articulate speech in French on dif-ferent levels of language proficiency is proposed. The determining role of prosody in building up pronunciation skills is underlined and the prosodic features required for sound flow organisation into entities reflecting semantic connections between words and the communicative intention of the speaker are determined: the similar length and the even tone of unstressed vowels, a different de-gree of stressed vowels prominence in accordance with the syntactical hierarchy, the rhematic tone localisation depending on the meaning of the utterance, alternation of rising and falling contours in complex utterances, the usage of rising and falling contour variants to express modal and emotional meanings. The main conclusion is that the formation of pronunciation skills in students is an achiev-able target within a limited time space assigned to the pronunciation course. Specialised phonetic training of teachers is the basic condition for success.
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spelling doaj-art-ccd01b80f6424550a74ea74646d15ad12025-08-20T02:56:29ZdeuUdmurt University Publishing CenterМногоязычие в образовательном пространстве2500-32672500-07482024-12-01164462470 ON THE PHONETIC ASPECT OF TEACHING FRENCH L.P. Morozova 0Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Minsk State Linguistic University (Minsk, Belarus), Associate Professor in the Department of French Lexicology, Doctor in Linguistics of Paris-Descartes University (Sorbonne)The article discusses the place of phonetics in teaching French. The importance of a theoretically based approach to the training of French sounds and proso-dy - the sequence of vowels under study to facilitate the consolidation of articulatory skills, the us-age of “base” sounds for teaching open and closed vowel series, the inclusion of the similarities and differences between the articulation of the target and native languages - is noted. The inventory of the articulatory features of the French sounds which ensure the articulate speech in French on dif-ferent levels of language proficiency is proposed. The determining role of prosody in building up pronunciation skills is underlined and the prosodic features required for sound flow organisation into entities reflecting semantic connections between words and the communicative intention of the speaker are determined: the similar length and the even tone of unstressed vowels, a different de-gree of stressed vowels prominence in accordance with the syntactical hierarchy, the rhematic tone localisation depending on the meaning of the utterance, alternation of rising and falling contours in complex utterances, the usage of rising and falling contour variants to express modal and emotional meanings. The main conclusion is that the formation of pronunciation skills in students is an achiev-able target within a limited time space assigned to the pronunciation course. Specialised phonetic training of teachers is the basic condition for success.https://journals.udsu.ru/multilingualism/article/view/9432/7921frenchphoneticsprosodypronunciationorthoepic normteachingoral communication
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ON THE PHONETIC ASPECT OF TEACHING FRENCH
Многоязычие в образовательном пространстве
french
phonetics
prosody
pronunciation
orthoepic norm
teaching
oral communication
title ON THE PHONETIC ASPECT OF TEACHING FRENCH
title_full ON THE PHONETIC ASPECT OF TEACHING FRENCH
title_fullStr ON THE PHONETIC ASPECT OF TEACHING FRENCH
title_full_unstemmed ON THE PHONETIC ASPECT OF TEACHING FRENCH
title_short ON THE PHONETIC ASPECT OF TEACHING FRENCH
title_sort on the phonetic aspect of teaching french
topic french
phonetics
prosody
pronunciation
orthoepic norm
teaching
oral communication
url https://journals.udsu.ru/multilingualism/article/view/9432/7921
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