Evidence-Based Design Principles for Spanish Pronunciation Teaching

In spite of the considerable body pedagogical and experimental research providing clear insights into best practices for pronunciation instruction, there exists relatively little implementation such in materials including textbooks. This is particularly true target languages other than English. With goal assisting instructors wishing to build effective evidence-based instructional practices, we outline a set key principles relevant teaching general, illustrated here via Spanish particular, drawing on previous as well methods findings from (applied) linguistics. overall enabling learners move toward greater intelligibility, these include importance perceptual training onset learning, strong prosodic component, use contextualized activities, focus segmental phenomena with high functional load those that are shared across language varieties. These then innovative perception production exercises beginner, university-level Spanish. We conclude discussion ways which exposed can be extended beyond individual activities design broader curriculum.