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Научное обозрение. Педагогические науки
ISSN 2500-3402
ПИ №ФС77-57475
ISSN 2500-3402
ПИ №ФС77-57475
PECULIARITIES OF TEACHING PHONETICS IN MULTILINGUAL ENVIRONMENT
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The article deals with description of peculiarities of teaching Phonetic aspects of speech in the environment where 3 or more languages interact. Such environment is defined as artificial multilinguism. The objective of teaching Phonetics in the conditions of artificial multilinguism as well as in those of one foreign language acquisition is development of the phonetic competence which comprises specific habits (auditory and pronunciation habits), knowledge and skills. Special attention is paid to interaction of phonetic habits of the contacting languages, which might result in phonetic interference. The author describes types of phonetic interference, means of its prevention and negotiation. One of the means mentioned above is a comparative analysis of phonological features with regard to their role in every language. The contacting languages compared are Russian (as a mother tongue), English (as a first foreign language), German (as a second foreign language), Spanish (as a third foreign language). The data given in the table make it possible to predict phonetic interference zones and potential difficulties as well as summarize students’ language experience for positive transfer in acquisition phonetic elements of a new language. That is a peculiar feature of teaching a second (a third, etc) foreign language. Students’ phonetic experience appears in broadening their phonetic repertoire, in more flexible articulation and in more developed phonological awareness. As an example of teaching Phonetics of a second (third) foreign language the author describes teaching the alphabet at the first lesson of a foreign language.