Teaching ”English melody” in Danish primary schools

aus der Wieschen, M. V. (Speaker)
Nathalie Schümchen (Speaker)

Department of Design and Communication

Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations

Description

Applying multimodal Conversation Analysis to Danish primary school EFL classroom interaction, we investigate the multimodal resources one teacher uses in teaching English prosody. The teacher uses multimodal resources to draw the pupils’ attention to English stress patterns including distinct emphasis on isolated linguistic items, reformulations, and gestures.

Period	23. Nov 2018
Event title	Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction
Event type	Conference
Conference number	5
Location	Aarhus, Denmark
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

Multimodal CA
Young EFL Learners
teaching intonation