contrastive analysis
INTONATION IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE
UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
INTONATION IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE
ABSTRACT Intonation is very important for English learner because when you talk a sentence without having a correct intonation, it may change the intended meaning of the whole sentence. This study will briefly compare Vietnamese intonation and English intonation as well as the differences between these two language intonations and to offer some implications for teaching English intonation to Vietnamese EFL learners. Obviously, English intonation is very different from that in Vietnamese in term of types of sentences, speech act and tag questions. I hope that this kind of work will be useful for the English learner to improve their knowledge. Through this, you can distinguish between English and Vietnamese intonations and can speak English fluently as native speaker. All I wish is your performance in English, the more you practice your intonation, the more you can speak it fluently.
LITERATURE REVIEW Cruttenden, A. (1997) said that “the term intonation refers to a means for conveying information in speech which is independent of the words and their sounds. Central to intonation is the modulation of pitch, and intonation is often thought of as the use of pitch over the domain of the utterance. However, the patterning of pitch in speech is so closely bound to patterns of timing and loudness, and sometimes voice quality, that we cannot consider pitch in isolation from these other dimensions. The interaction of intonation and stress — the patterns of relative prominence which characterise an utterance — is particularly close in many languages, including English. For those who prefer to reserve ‘intonation’ for pitch effectsin speech, the word ‘prosody’ is convenient as a more general term to include patterns of pitch, timing, loudness, and (sometimes) voice quality”. In terms of the
UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
INTONATION IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE
ABSTRACT Intonation is very important for English learner because when you talk a sentence without having a correct intonation, it may change the intended meaning of the whole sentence. This study will briefly compare Vietnamese intonation and English intonation as well as the differences between these two language intonations and to offer some implications for teaching English intonation to Vietnamese EFL learners. Obviously, English intonation is very different from that in Vietnamese in term of types of sentences, speech act and tag questions. I hope that this kind of work will be useful for the English learner to improve their knowledge. Through this, you can distinguish between English and Vietnamese intonations and can speak English fluently as native speaker. All I wish is your performance in English, the more you practice your intonation, the more you can speak it fluently.
LITERATURE REVIEW Cruttenden, A. (1997) said that “the term intonation refers to a means for conveying information in speech which is independent of the words and their sounds. Central to intonation is the modulation of pitch, and intonation is often thought of as the use of pitch over the domain of the utterance. However, the patterning of pitch in speech is so closely bound to patterns of timing and loudness, and sometimes voice quality, that we cannot consider pitch in isolation from these other dimensions. The interaction of intonation and stress — the patterns of relative prominence which characterise an utterance — is particularly close in many languages, including English. For those who prefer to reserve ‘intonation’ for pitch effectsin speech, the word ‘prosody’ is convenient as a more general term to include patterns of pitch, timing, loudness, and (sometimes) voice quality”. In terms of the
References: [1] Luu Thi Kim Nhung. A brief comparison of Vietnamese intonation and English intonation and its implications for teaching English intonation to Vietnamese EFL learners. Faculty of English, Hanoi National University of Education, Building D3, 136 Xuan Thuy, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam. http://www.cambridge.org/other_files/downloads/esl/tge/TGE-Chapter4.pdf