Developing pragmatics in Spanish as an additional language: Enhancing pronunciation through multimodal cues

• Florence Baills ^[1] ; Núria Esteve-Gibert ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Cologne

     University of Cologne

     Kreisfreie Stadt Köln, Alemania

     
  2. [2] Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

     Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE / Zsuzsanna Bárkányi (ed. lit.), M. Mar Galindo Merino (ed. lit.), Aarón Pérez Bernabeu (ed. lit.), 2024, ISBN 978-90-272-1786-8, págs. 55-70
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter delves into the crucial role of pronunciation, particularly prosody, in shaping meaning and fostering the development of pragmatics in Spanish as an additional language (ELE). Effective communication not only relies on the literal content of verbal messages, but it also heavily depends on the appropriate use of oral and non-verbal cues that enrich it. We first explain how speakers employ multimodal strategies such as speech prosody and body movements to optimise their oral discourse and successfully convey their communicative intentions. Then we propose to focus on the integration of speech prosody and body movements into pronunciation instruction and provide illustrations of how to achieve this when teaching speech acts, discourse and information structure in ELE.