The document discusses functional communicability, which refers to a learner's ability to successfully use spoken English in real communicative situations. It notes that Dalton and Seidlhofer identified six communicative abilities related to pronunciation: prominence, topic management, information status, turn-taking, social meanings and roles, and degree of involvement. The document also mentions eliciting students' needs and interests through surveys to determine pronunciation practices to focus on.
1. The learner’s ability to function successfully
Functional Communicability
within the specific communicative situations
he or she faces.
2. ★ Learners have a ability to use spoken
English successfully in real communicative
situations.
3. ★ To elicit students’ needs and
interests by giving survey..
The students Interest
What are the features do we need to
choose and which pronunciation
practices should be focus?
4. Persons who
influenced
Functional
Communicability
Dalton and
Seidlhofer
5. KEYWORDS
Dalton and Seidlhofer list six
communicative abilities related to
pronunciation:
1. Prominence: how to make salient
the important points we make
2. Topic management: how to signal
and recognize where one topic ends
and another begins
3. Information status: how to mark
what we assume to be shared
knowledge as opposed to something
new.
4. Turn-taking: when to speak, and
when to be silent, how to yield the
floor to somebody else
5. Social meanings and roles: how to
position ourselves
6. Degree of involvement: how to
convey our attitudes, emotions, etc.