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Method and Tool Innovations for Speech Science Education (M.A.T.I.S.S.E.)April 16-17, 1999 |
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Method and Tool Innovations for Speech Science Education (M.A.T.I.S.S.E.)April 16-17, 1999 |
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The purpose of this paper is to outline the objectives of teaching phonetics in Polish universities and to relate them to the proposals advocated in "The Landscape of Future Education in Speech Communication Sciences. Book 2 - Proposals". Although the data presented in this paper have been collected from one university, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznañ, and thus the paper may be interpreted as a case study, it can be ascertained that the trends of phonetics teaching recognised in the examined university reflect the tendencies present in all Polish higher education institutions.
The first section of the paper is dedicated to the issue of the importance of incorporating phonetics in curricula of certain academic courses, as well as to time, staff and facilities limitations arising whilst designing the curricula. Further, the structures of phonetics syllabuses are analysed and the main phonetics teaching objectives are established for respective courses. The contents of the syllabuses are compared with the study elements of phonetics curriculum proposed for different specialisations by the Socrates TN Phonetics working group. Subsequently, the paper provides an insight into the teaching resources and facilities available, used in teaching phonetics in Polish universities.
Bibliographic reference. Bryndal, Malgorzata (1999): "Phonetics teaching objectives in Polish universities", In MATISSE-1999, 105-108.