Romanian Journal of English Studies (Mar 2013)

An Increase in Imported Goods, Imports Have Increased – The Role of Teaching Pronunciation in an Esp Classroom

  • Đurović Tatjana,
  • Silaški Nadežda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 89 – 98

Abstract

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The fact that English has become the major lingua franca of international business and economy has influenced the goal of teaching pronunciation in an ESP economics classroom: the nativelike speaking skill as the ultimate goal has been superseded by a more realistic and more reasonable goal - the adoption of intelligibility and communicability skills. We argue here, however, that pronunciation skills should be included in a university level ESP economics course syllabus. We point out common pronunciation errors made by economics students due to first-language transfer, exemplifying our points with various types of exercises aiming at overcoming their pronunciation problems.

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