Teaching prosody awareness in spontaneous speech for non-linguistic students

The paper reports on the findings of study prosody in teaching spontaneous speech production. Insufficient development a scientifically based methodology for building oral language skills, taking into account its prosodic characteristics, determines relevance study. main goal research is to correct learner talk, results experimental phonetic research. an integrated approach using linguistic methods research, as well psychological and pedagogic experiment 97 monolingual utterances undergraduate students, non-English majors (total running 190 minutes) show summary commonly occurring problems that lead non-native intonation. These are mostly related improper segmentation, wrong distribution utterance stress, incorrect rhythmic organisation speech, break intonation continuum, inappropriate patterns melodic contour. proposed focus monologue includes following stages: sensitisation, imitation, reading with practice activities. Methodological recommendations contain specific proposals sentence syntagmatic division, pausing, rhythmics speech.