TY - GEN
T1 - Providing individualized homework and accountability for ITAs via Internet resources
AU - Richards, Monica
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Pronunciation instructors of international teaching assistants (ITAs) frequently provide individual feedback highlighting the fluency, suprasegmental, and segmental challenges most likely to inhibit a particular ITA’s successful interaction with undergraduates. Yet providing ITAs with practice actually implementing individual feedback given, adequate to enabling their development of new, more communicatively effective pronunciation habits, remains difficult. However, the Internet and learning management systems (LMSes, e.g., Moodle) contain resources capable of supporting and holding students accountable for focused, self-directed work on nearly any pronunciation-related target. This article briefly overviews the challenge faced by ITA instructors of advanced pronunciation, the feasibility of individualizing assignments in advanced pronunciation classes, the second language acquisition (SLA) foundations for a series of exercises designed to address common ITA difficulties, and sample directions for all exercises described.
AB - Pronunciation instructors of international teaching assistants (ITAs) frequently provide individual feedback highlighting the fluency, suprasegmental, and segmental challenges most likely to inhibit a particular ITA’s successful interaction with undergraduates. Yet providing ITAs with practice actually implementing individual feedback given, adequate to enabling their development of new, more communicatively effective pronunciation habits, remains difficult. However, the Internet and learning management systems (LMSes, e.g., Moodle) contain resources capable of supporting and holding students accountable for focused, self-directed work on nearly any pronunciation-related target. This article briefly overviews the challenge faced by ITA instructors of advanced pronunciation, the feasibility of individualizing assignments in advanced pronunciation classes, the second language acquisition (SLA) foundations for a series of exercises designed to address common ITA difficulties, and sample directions for all exercises described.
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Annual Proceedings of the Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference
SP - 245
EP - 257
BT - Proceedings of the 7th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference
A2 - Levis, John
A2 - Le, Huong
A2 - Lucic, Ivana
A2 - Simpson, Evan
A2 - Vo, Sonca
PB - Iowa State University
ER -