Teaching L2 English Pronunciation: Research and Course Design

A Critical Review of John Murphy, ed. 2017. Teaching the Pronunciation of English: Focus on Whole Courses. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan P. viii + 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0-472-03644-8 and Anna Jarosz. 2019. English Pronunciation in L2 Instruction: The Case of Secondary School Learners. Cham: Springer. xii + 165 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-13891-2.

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  • Celia Gorba Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2019-41.2.11

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Celia Gorba, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Celia Gorba studied a Master’s degree in Advanced English Studies with a specialization in Multilingualism and Acquisition of English at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is currently finishing her PhD thesis in the same institution. Her areas of interest are phonetics
and phonology, more specifically speech perception and production, L2 speech acquisition and L1 attrition.

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2019-12-23

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Gorba, C. (2019). Teaching L2 English Pronunciation: Research and Course Design: A Critical Review of John Murphy, ed. 2017. Teaching the Pronunciation of English: Focus on Whole Courses. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan P. viii + 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0-472-03644-8 and Anna Jarosz. 2019. English Pronunciation in L2 Instruction: The Case of Secondary School Learners. Cham: Springer. xii + 165 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-13891-2. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, 41(2), 215–224. https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2019-41.2.11

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