4.3. TELT: pronunciation-teaching methodology and phonology
4.3.1. Integration of pronunciation-teaching methodology and phonology-study
We have argued that phonology should not be taught to trainees and practising
teachers in a way that separates it from approaches to teaching pronunciation,
but at least alongside and preferably through them. This is one interpretation of
what Wharton (1998, p. 128) calls ``an exploratory approach to learning''. Pronunciation
issues can be raised through treating TELT course-participants as learners
in an initial lesson in an unknown language. In this type of way, priorities can
usefully be made in the area of teachers' phonological knowledge according to
priorities in the area of SFL learners' practice of pronunciation. The strategic pedagogical
model discussed in Section 4.2.1 of this paper oers one framework within
which integration of pronunciation-teaching methodology and phonology-study
can be achieved. If pronunciation is approached through an integrated pedagogy,
phonological features may arise apparently spontaneously and arbitrarily for
the attention of the TELT course-participants, though in fact it is likely that the
TELT course-designers will have organised the course with particular phonological
phenomena in mind.
4.3.2. Selection and ordering of phonological features to be studied
Teachers coming even to Masters-level programmes of study in language teaching