To specifity of discourse approach for engineering students listening comprehension training in Elt classroom
2016
Boitsova, E., Peter the Great St. Petersburg State Polytechnic Univ. (Russian Federation) | Bogach, N., Peter the Great St. Petersburg State Polytechnic Univ. (Russian Federation) | Vylegzhanina, K., Peter the Great St. Petersburg State Polytechnic Univ. (Russian Federation)
Spoken English listening comprehension has become mandatory in the fields of science and technology. The innovations in higher education require a high level of students’ English listening comprehension because of the increased amount of lectures on special subjects delivered in English. However, of the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) listening is the least researched and valued. Problems in listening require new approaches resulting in developing special educational strategies. The article is aimed at discussing the relevant prosody and intonation markers in the speech of a lecturer as additional aids to understand the content of the oral scientific discourse. The following indicators have been chosen by the authors of the article as the most observable means of the speaker’s intention to convey the message: the tone change at the beginning of a new paragraph; emphasizing the key words and word-combinations; intonation changes to transfer the known and new information. The tests examining the students’ abilities to recognize the prosody and intonation features in the oral scientific discourse were performed. Students’ training was organized to study the ways of listening comprehension improvement, and positive results were received. The article underlines the importance of teaching students to know the role of prosody and intonation as supplementary aids of understanding the meaning. Teaching methods, the instruments for objective visualization of intonation markers and creation of visual training materials are introduced in the article.
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