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      Pronunciation instruction and syllabic-pattern discrimination Translated title: Ensino de pronúncia e a discriminação de padrões silábicos

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          The present research is an investigation of the role played by pronunciation instruction in the discrimination of English CVC and CVCV syllabic patterns in word-final position. The participants of this study were two groups of Brazilian learners (beginners): the control group (10 students), and the experimental group (12 students). Both groups were given a discrimination pretest and posttest, between which the experimental group received instruction based on a pronunciation manual with activities focused on the English syllable and word-final consonants, whereas the control group received no such instruction. The pre and posttests consisted of an oddity discrimination test, in which the participants had to discriminate between the CVC and CVCV syllabic patterns. The posttest results showed somewhat greater improvement for the experimental group than for the control group, but this difference was not statistically significant.

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          O presente estudo testou o efeito do ensino da pronúncia na percepção do contraste entre os padrões silábicos CV e CVC no final de palavras da língua inglesa. A pesquisa contou com a participação de um Grupo Experimental e um Grupo de Controle. Apenas o Grupo Experimental recebeu instrução sobre a pronúncia de algumas consoantes finais do inglês e sobre a importância de evitar o uso de uma vogal epentética para pronunciar estas consoantes. Os dois grupos foram testados (pré-teste) antes que o primeiro grupo recebesse o tratamento (i.e., instrução relacionada à pronúncia das consoantes finais), bem como uma semana após o tratamento (pós-teste). Os resultados do pós-teste sugerem que o Grupo Experimental apresentou um desempenho superior ao do Grupo de Controle (ainda que essa diferença não tenha sido estatisticamente significativa), especialmente com relação às consoantes praticadas com o auxílio da apostila de pronúncia.

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                delta
                DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
                DELTA
                Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC-SP (São Paulo )
                1678-460X
                2011
                : 27
                : 1
                : 21-36
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Brazil
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                S0102-44502011000100002
                10.1590/S0102-44502011000100002
                fef37862-9672-45c2-9f70-21a59df5d682

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                LINGUISTICS

                General linguistics
                pronunciation,formal instruction,syllabic patterns,pronúncia,instrução formal,epêntese,epenthesis,padrões silábicos

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