Validating David Brazil's Theory of Discourse Intonation for Intonation Teaching.

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  • イントネーション指導における談話のイントネーション理論の妥当性

Abstract

Despite the enthusiasm for communicative language teaching in Japan, intonation teaching has been confused and is lacking in an agreed theoretical base. This paper first compares six intonation theories to seek the most appropriate intonation theory for pedagogical use. The discussion of the intonation theories follows two perspectives: 1) to see how practical and easy the notation system is, 2) to evaluate the validity of the intonation theories. With regard to the notation system, simplicity and the accuracy of representing intonation contour are considered. Moreover, as for the validity of intonation theory, the importance of the discourse perspective is taken into account. As it fulfils these conditions, this paper finally proposes David Brazil's discourse intonation theory as the most appropriate theoretical foundation for intonation teaching.

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  • CRID
    1390282680798730368
  • NII Article ID
    110008512190
  • DOI
    10.20581/arele.11.0_91
  • ISSN
    24320412
    13448560
  • Text Lang
    en
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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    Disallowed

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