Word production and rhoticity tasks: an effective way of content consolidation in English phonetics and phonology course
2023
Abstract
The paper offers an assessment of two seminar tasks completed by first year undergraduate students within a newly accredited intensive course of English phonetics and phonology for pre-service EFL teachers in the summer semester 2022. Both the Word production and Rhoticity task were designed to enhance students' understanding of the selected phenomena: production of segments in connected speech and the degree of rhoticity in one's accent.
Drawing on the data from an online questionnaire and content analysis of the submitted tasks, there is a strong indication of their overall efficiency and positive reception.