Leia o texto, para responder à questão. Morley (1999) has outlined four important goals for pronunciation instruction: functional intelligibility, functional communicability, incre

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Morley (1999) has outlined four important goals for pronunciation instruction: functional intelligibility, functional communicability, increased self-confidence, and speech monitoring abilities.

For our purposes, intelligibility is defined as spoken English in which an accent, if present, is not distracting to the listener. Since learners rarely achieve an accent-free pronunciation, we are setting our students up for failure if we strive for nativelike accuracy. Eradication of an accent should not be our goal; in fact, some practitioners use the term accent addition as opposed to accent reduction to acknowledge the individual’s first language (L1) identity without demanding it be sublimated in the new second language (L2).

Functional communicability is the learner’s ability to function successfully within the specific communicative situations he or she faces. And, as they gain communicative skill, they also need to gain confidence in their ability to speak and be understood.

Bv teaching learners to pay attention to their own speech as well as that of others, we help our learners make better use of the input they receive. Good learners “attend” to certain aspects of the speech they hear and then try to imitate it. Speech monitoring activities help to focus learners’ attention on such features both in our courses and beyond them.

(Goodwin, Janet. Teaching Pronunciation. In Marianne Celce-Murcia. 3^rd ed. Teaching English as a second or foreign language. 3^rd edition. Boston, Massachusstes: Heinle&Heinle. 2002. Adaptado)

It is possible to understand from the fourth paragraph that, by providing learners with speech monitoring activities which will help them act beyond the formal courses they attend, teachers contribute directly to learners’