Teaching English intonation to EFL students

Abstract EN

Intonation is an important melodic aspect that characterizes spoken language as well as a feature that enables successful communication.

Therefore, teaching intonation to learners of English as a specialty is one of the main tasks for language practice.

This research paper seeks to find out why intonation has been neglected in the process of teaching pronunciation to EFL learners and determine that teaching intonation patterns, with a focus on its significant functions of transmitting meanings to learners, has positive influence on their English language proficiency and fluency.

Adopting a mixed approach research, qualitative and quantitative research methods; the corpus of data was collected from teachers' and students' questionnaires.

The research also suggests some useful in-class activities to teach intonation patterns to EFL learners, mainly because it is, to some extent, the first responsible for the students' level of success in communication.