A criação de alvos perceptivos em L2

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Florencio, Hosana Alves
• Orientador(a): Madureira, Sandra
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem
• Departamento: Faculdade de Filosofia, Comunicação, Letras e Artes
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ensino-aprendizagem de língua estrangeira; Percepção de fala em segunda língua; Treinamento perceptivo
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Teaching-Learning of foreign languages; Speech perception in second language; Perceptive training
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19648

In the field of teaching English as a Second Language (L2), oral production and oral comprehension are two difficult skills for students to develop. One of the contributing factors for this difficulty is the lack of creation of perceptive targets, which prevents the formation of new sound categories in L2, hampering production, identification and perceptive discrimination. In order to reflect upon new possibilities for teaching L2 pronunciation, the main goal of this study – supported by subsidies of Acoustic Phonetics, speech technologies and the Speech Learning Model – is to investigate the effects of the introduction of a pronunciation training program based on the development of perceptive targets and, with this investigation, to contribute with subsidies for teaching pronunciation in L2 for native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. The following vocal contrasts present in the English language will be investigated as study topics: /ɪ/ and /iː/; /ʊ/ and /u:/; /æ/ and /ɛ/; /ʌ/ and /ɑ/. Therefore, this study covers the execution of the following tasks: 1) application of a test for the identification and perceptive discrimination of contrasts between English vowels to study subjects (learners of English as L2– youths and adults) as the pre-introduction of a perception training program; 2) application of a pronunciation training program comprising five units, with speech technology features to develop the subjects’ listening skills and help them create perceptive targets; 3) application of a perceptive discrimination and identification test between English vowels, considering that the study subjects have also taken a post-training test with perceptual exercises after the introduction of a perception training program in English; and 4) comparative analysis of the pre- and post-tests and assessment of the perception training program. Therefore, with the results of perceptive training, we concluded that such training is greatly valuable to stimulate the subjects’ attention regarding new acoustic cues that will allow them to distinguish sounds in L2, since the subjects in this study assimilated the L2 minimal pairs to a single sound in the phonemic inventory of their mother language (L1)