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8.2. Contents of learners' theoretical and practical knowledge in phonetics

Studying English pronunciation in a secondary school, learners acquire both theoretical knowledge and speech habits of pronunciation. This branch of their linguistic competence can be divided into the following three parts: pronunciation of new words, i.e. acoustic realization of sounds, diphthongs, monophthongs and separate words, pronunciation of word-building elements, e. g.: capable and grammatical forms (asked, does, etc.); pronunciation of sentences, i. e. knowledge connected with functional use of the prosodic means of the English language used in pronouncing sentences. The main prosodic means in the English language are stress, tempo, rhythm, tone, melody and pauses;

knowledge connecting pronunciation and writing which enriches both learners'pronunciation and spelling skills e.g.: DAUGHTER— au [d:J; ght- [t];-er-

8.3. Requirements for secondary school learners' skills in pronunciation

The goal of studying pronunciation hi a secondary school is purely practical,

i.e. developing in learners such skills in pronunciation within the thematic language material envisaged by the Curriculum that would help them experi­ence no difficulties in communicating with native speakers.

In teaching foreign languages in school and all other educational estab­lishments pronuciation is not studied as a separate subject except special-i/cd philological institutes and departments of foreign languages in universi-ins. Nevertheless in countries devoid of rich-acquisition environment it is very difficult or nearly impossible to develop foreign language pronunciation skills. That's why some theoretical knowledge about English pronunciation їм і і secondary school is necessary.

The scope of phonetic items studied in a secondary school is to be reduced only to meaningful distinctions of the foreign language. By meaningful distinc­tions of a foreign language we understand all those phonetic phenomena which can provide phonetic intelligibility of speech in the language. For example, in the English language to meaningful distinctions of speech there can be referred:

[I] and [i:J — sheep and ship

[nDtj and [naut] — not and note

The sounds above are distinctive meaningfully and help differentiate be­tween the two words having different meanings.

Among meaningfully distinctive items of the English language are pro­nunciation of vowels in open and closed syllables, rising and falling tones and many others, a list of which will be given below.

On the other hand, such phonetic phenomena of the English language as sounds [w] and [v], aspiration of consonants, peculiarity of pronunciation of the English sound [s] and many others can't be considered as meaning­fully distinctive ones, because though they add authentic tint to the speech in English their usage does not help to differentiate between two words having different meanings.

8.4. List of phonetic items of the english language to be studied in secondary school

In accordance with the principle of meaningful distinctions the following phonetic items of the English language are obligatory for studying in a sec­ondary school in this country:

The phonemes [I], [I:], [e], [ж], [э], [in], [6], [/>], [эи], [о].

The letter-combinations kn, wr (at the beginning of a word), ph, qu, ck, ch, th, ighjght, ear, ere, ее, еа, oa, oo, ar, or, ir, er, ur, yr, al+a consonant, wh, ew, ow, as+a consonan.