INTONATION IN ENGLISH

I am glad to upload my lecture on Intonation, considered by most of the language teachers as something hard to teach and learn. While I don`t completely disagree with it , I equally feel that most of the language teachers ( at least in the countries where English has the status of Second or Foreign Language) make it very puzzling for the students by making a simple generalization that Intonation cannot be learnt.

What I have tried to do here is to confront these approaches head-on by making a case that intonation, like another element of ELT can be taught quite easily.

The present lecture is part of a two hour lecture on Intonation delivered to the students of the Advanced level proficiency course in English, a part time course offered by The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

My lecture focuses on the difference between what we say and how we say. Making this a starting point brings out the importance of Intonation to the semantic value of a sentence,

apart from content words.

Although the quality of the video is not that good, I hope it is of help to all ESL/EFL learners. I have included the slides also, those I used in the class room. Together, I hope, it should guide you to a good understanding of the topic.

I thank EFL-University, Hyderabad for making this possible.

You can also download a better quality video by following the links bellow:

http://rapidshare.com/files/246580648/Bilal.mpg.001.zip http://rapidshare.com/files/246580648/Bilal.mpg.001.zip

Comments are welcome.

Thank you.

Bilal A. Shah