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Comparison of the Effectiveness of Analytic-linguistic Approach and Integrative Approach in College English Class

DOI: 10.26855/oajer.2022.11.003
Year, volume (issue): 2022, 1(5)
pp. 318-323
Published in: OA Journal of Education Research
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Xue Yin, Zhaohui Chang

College English Teaching, oral English, pedagogical approaches, the integrative approach, the analytic-linguistic approach

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This research project is going to investigate the effectiveness of two different pedagogical approaches to the teaching of English pronunciation: the analytic-linguistic approach and integrative approach. These two teaching techniques will be employed in Qingdao city University sophomore English classrooms to teach /θ/ and / ð/ and aim to find out which technique is more effective. The literature review mainly summarize popular pronunciation teaching techniques in previous study, the difference between Chinese pronunciation and English pronunciation, and the English pronunciation features of Mandarin speakers. The research methods are mainly survey and classroom observation. After using these two pronunciation teaching techniques, students’ record of pronunciation of a short story will be collected and analyzed. Finally the results will be concluded and discussed. From this research, the result shows that the integrative approach is more effective than the analytic-linguistic approach in teaching the pronunciation of /θ/ and /ð/ sounds in these two classes in Qingdao City University.

Keywords: College English Teaching, oral English, pedagogical approaches, the integrative approach, the analytic-linguistic approach

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