Identifying Data 2013/14
Subject (*) Fonética da Lingua Inglesa Code 613G03023
Study programme
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 1st four-month period
 Third Obligatoria 6
Language
English
Prerequisites
Department Filoloxía Inglesa
Coordinador
Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño, Isabel
 E-mail
isabel.moskowich-spiegel.fandino@udc.es
Lecturers
Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño, Isabel
 E-mail
isabel.moskowich-spiegel.fandino@udc.es
Web
General description The course aims at providing the student some basic linguistic concepts relating to the branch of Phonology and Phonetics as well as with the tools necessary to recognise and reproduce the speech sounds of English. To this end, descriptions will be accompanied by graphemes representations and transcriptions.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A6 Ter un dominio instrumental avanzado oral e escrito da lingua inglesa.
A11 Ter capacidade para avaliar, analizar e sintetizar criticamente información especializada.
A20 Coñecer a variación lingüística da lingua inglesa.
B1 Utilizar os recursos bibliográficos, as bases de datos e as ferramentas de busca de información.
B3 Adquirir capacidade de autoformación.
B5 Relacionar os coñecementos cos doutras áreas e disciplinas.
B6 Ter capacidade de organizar o traballo, planificar e xestionar o tempo e resolver problemas de forma efectiva.
C3 Utilizar as ferramentas básicas das tecnoloxías da información e as comunicacións (TIC) necesarias para o exercicio da súa profesión e para a aprendizaxe ao longo da súa vida.

Learning aims
Subject competencies (Learning outcomes) Study programme competences
Ter un dominio instrumental avanzado oral e escrito da lingua inglesa e elaborar textos orais e escritos de diferente tipo en lingua inglesa. A6
Ter capacidade para avaliar, analizar e sintetizar criticamente información especializada, en concreto, a relativa aos procesos de pronunciación da lingua inglesa. A11
Coñecer a variación lingüística da lingua inglesa a nivel oral. A20
Utilizar os recursos bibliográficos, as bases de datos e as ferramentas de busca de información. B1
Adquirir capacidade de autoformación unha vez falimilarizado o alumnado coas fontes bibliográficas e recursos básicos. B3
Relacionar os coñecementos cos adquiridos noutras materias da titulación B5
Ter capacidade de organizar o traballo, e o tempo pois as entregas e actividades son anunciadas con anterioridade B6
Utilizar as ferramentas básicas das tecnoloxías da información e as comunicacións (TIC) xa que moitas das actividades da aula baséanse en Moodle. C3

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Phonology and Phonetics as linguistic disciplines 1.1. Basic concepts and tools. Definition and description
1.2. Acoustic Phnetics
1.3. Auditive Phonetics
1.4. Articulatory Phonetics
2. Speech sounds and their graphic representation 2.1. Vowels and consonantsfunctional and articulatory classifications
2.2. IPA and its representation/classification of speech sounds
3. Speech organs 3.1. The anatomy of speech
3.2. The phisiology of speech
4. Manner of articulation, place of articulation and voiced/voiceless sounds
5. English vowels_ descrption and graphic representation 5.1. Vowels
5.2. Diphthongs and triphthongs
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6. English consonants_ description and graphic representation
7. Syllables, words and connected speech. 7.1. Syllables: definition and structure
7. 2. Connected speech phenomena: Gradation. Assimilation. Elision. Juncture. Liaison.
8. Stress. Accentual patterns of English
9. The accents of English 9.1. Great Britain: Received pronunciation, Estuary English
9.2. U.S.A.: American Standard English, African-American English, American- Indian English
9.3. Australia and New Zealand
9.3. English sa a second language accents

Planning
Methodologies / tests Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Case study 6 12 18
Guest lecture / keynote speech 21 42 63
Problem solving 7 25 32
ICT practicals 6 17 23
Objective test 2 6 8
 
Personalized attention 6 0 6
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Case study This corresponds to Docencia Interactiva. In these sessions, students are expected to be able to solve particular problems such as recognition of phobetic transcriptions, identification of accents, etc.
Guest lecture / keynote speech Lectures will take place once a week. Students are expected to participate.
Problem solving Students will be in charge of solving particular problems either in class or by means of the interactive platform Moodle.
ICT practicals Students will be given exercises and activities to be carried out by means of the interactive platform Moodle.
Objective test All students must take a final exam to test their general knowledge of the topics dealt with durting the course.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Problem solving
ICT practicals
Guest lecture / keynote speech
Case study
Description
All activities imply the direct attention of the teacher!s. It will take place both inside and outrside the classroom. Students will be able to contact the teacher!s in their office hours as well as by e-mail or Moodle.

Assessment
Methodologies Description Qualification
Problem solving Students may be evaluated by collecting some of the activities they must carry out both in class or at home 30
ICT practicals Students may be asked to solve some problem or do some kind of test ¿in class, at home or on the Moodle platform?. 20
Objective test All students will have to sit for a final exam to be held in January . A minumum grade of 4 (out of 10) must be obtained in this test in order for the rest of the grades to be added to it. 50
 
Assessment comments
<p>Students will be evaluated along the course by a maximum of 4 activities as well as by the final comprehensive test.</p><p>In order to pass students must have a mark of, at least, 4 (of ten) in the final exam. They mus also hand in at least half the activities required. If not, the student will not be graded and will receive a "non presentado".</p><p>Students that do not padd in January may have another opportunity in July for which there will be a final test (50%) as well as one activity to be done at home (50%).</p><p>Part-time students who have been granted a "dispensa académica" must contact the teacher at the beginning of the semester in order to design the necessary changes and adjustments relating to the different activities to be acarried out along the academic year.</p>

Sources of information
Basic

GIMSON, A.C. 1989 (4th ed.). An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English . London: Edward Arnold.

LADEFOGED, P. 1993 (3rd ed.). A Course in Phonetics . Fort Worth, Texas:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College.

 

Internet Resources as well as on-line phonetics courses and dictionaries will be provided on Moodle.

 
Complementary

ALCARAZ, E. and MOODY, B. 1984 (3rded.). FonéticaInglesa para Españoles . Third Edition, 1993. Alcoy:Editobal Maffil.

ASHBY, P. 1995. Speech Sounds. London: Routledge.

BALL, Martin J., and RAHILLY, Joan. 1999. Phonetics . The Science ofSpeech. London: Arnold.

CARR, Philip. 1999. English Phoneticsand Phonology . Oxford: Blackwell.

FINCH, D.F. and ORTIZ-LIRA, H. 1982, A Course in English Pronunciation forSpanish Speakers , London:: Heinemann.

GIMSON, A.C. 2001 (6th ed.). Gimson|sPronunciation of English. 5th ed. of An Introduction to the Pronunciation ofEnglish . Revised by A. Cruttenden. London: Edward Arnold.

LAROY, C. 1995. Pronunciation . Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress.

MONROY CASAS, R. 1979. LaPronunciación del Inglés R.P. para Hablantes del Español. Madrid: Paraninfo.

MOTT, Brian. A Course in Phonetics andPhonology for Spanish Learners of English . Barcelona: PPU Universitas 7.

ROGERS, Henry. 2000. The Sounds of Language. An Introduction to Phonetics . Essex: Pearson Education Ltd.


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus
Lingua Inglesa 1/613G03003
Lingüística Xeral/613G03004
Lingua Inglesa 2/613G03008
Lingua Inglesa 3/613G03015
Lingua Inglesa 4/613G03019

Other comments


(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.