English-Medium Instruction and Pronunciation: Exposure and Skills Development

Karin Richter

Published by Multilingual Matters 2019

English-Medium Instruction and Pronunciation

Exposure and Skills Development

Karin Richter

In the series Second Language Acquisition

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788922463

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About this book

First longitudinal study to combine the much-discussed areas of pronunciation and English-Medium Instruction

This book offers new insights into the language gains of adult learners enrolled in an English-medium instruction degree programme. It provides longitudinal evidence of the phonological gains of the learners and investigates whether increased exposure to the target language leads to incidental learning of second language pronunciation.

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Richter Karin :

Karin Richter is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has been working in the field for over 15 years and her research focuses on English-medium instruction, teaching speaking skills and pronunciation learning and teaching.

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Those interested in pronunciation will find this volume most enlightening. At a time when EMI programmes are burgeoning, pronunciation has unfortunately been largely disregarded by researchers, although both teachers and students are very concerned about its role in EMI. This study successfully manages to bridge this research/concern gap.

This book not only effectively demonstrates that long run EMI instruction can improve students’ pronunciation, it also shows that the critical period is not absolute – adults can improve their pronunciation. The impressive literature reviews of EMI in Europe, of language learning in the EMI classroom, and of factors influencing L2 pronunciation mastery, are in themselves are compelling reasons to read the book.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Tables and Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations and Acronyms Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. English-Medium Instruction in European Higher Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
3. Language Learning in the English-Medium Classroom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
4. Factors Influencing L2 Pronunciation Mastery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
5. The Development of the Austrian Accent in the EMI Classroom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
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