Educational guide 2015_16 Faculty of Arts

Learning aims

Objectives	Competences
To develop awareness about the importance of pronunciation in the teaching of EFL	AC3 AC5 AC6 AC9 AC10	BC2 BC6 BC8 BC10	CC1
To reflect on the role of the intructor's own pronunciation and its effect on the learners	AC3 AC5 AC6 AC9	BC2 BC3 BC4 BC8 BC10 BC12	CC1
To provide basic notions of phonetics and phonology as applied to the sound system of English	AC2 AC4 AC5 AC7	BC4 BC11 BC12 BC14	CC1
To review the sound system of English and explore the variations that exist in the main dialectal varieties of the language (Standard British and General American)	AC2 AC4 AC5 AC7	BC4 BC11 BC12 BC14	CC1
To explore the areas of the sound system of English that are of particular difficulty to native Spanish/Catalan learners	AC1 AC3 AC4 AC5 AC6 AC7 AC9	BC1 BC2 BC3 BC4	CC1
To review some methodological aspects that are specific to the teaching of pronunciation	AC2 AC3 AC4	BC1 BC2 BC7 BC11	CC1 CC2
To provide methodological tools and to review a variety of different exercises that can lead to the effective teaching of pronunciation	AC2 AC3 AC4	BC1 BC2 BC4 BC5 BC6 BC7 BC10 BC11 BC14 BC15	CC1 CC2