Um resumo das teorias da fonética inglesa.

1. ENGLISH PHONETIC - SUMMARY
The importance of a good beginning in phonetics’skills depends on the “right”
direction explained by the teacher in any language, emphasizing fundamentally
that before learning to write, pupils have phonetic production’s exercises
(performance) and recognition (ear-training) from the sounds of the language to
be studied.
Through its practice, an important observation in perceiving in Brazil, some
pupils complains about to the quality of their pronunciation and oral
comprehension to learn English language (EL), and the teachers are insecure
about the “correct” pronunciation of themselves. According to cognitive
approach in 1960, influenced by transformational-gerative grammar by Chomsky
(1959, 1965) and by cognitive psychology by Neisser (1967) saw the language as
behavior rules instead of habit’s formation, which lead to emphasize the
grammar and vocabulary in detriment of the pronunciation, whereas they had
been believing inan equal native’s pronunciation was an unreal aim and could be
no being achieved. Nowadays the language teaching is emphasized by the
communicative approaching, which began in the 80’s having as principle and
primary goal the communication, focusing on a language which brings again the
necessity and urgency of the pronunciation’s teaching, however,, the purpose
isn’t to do the scholars speak likenatives do, because the mainly phonetic
preoccupation is how to describe the speaking’s sounds.
Successful communication cannot take place without correct pronunciation,
because the notion of “correctness” with regard to pronunciation is not
tantamount to adherence to “native speaker” norms or Received Pronunciation
(RP) rules.
There are some researchers who have cast doubt on the importance of
pronunciation practice in class has little, if any, effect on learners’ pronunciation
skills. In other words, the attainment of accurate pronunciation in a second
language is a matter substantially beyond the control of educators. It might be
helpful to think of various aspects of pronunciation along a teachability-
learnability scale. For instance, the attitudinal function of intonation might
better be learnt without teacher intervention.
João L. A. Ferreira (John Wainwright)