15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
In the theoretical framework of fluency whose concept is defined, the
article analyses the relationship between fluency and pause distribution
from the perspective of obvious difficulties facing Nigerian learners
of French as a foreign language. An experiment shows that enhanced
fluency is a function of better pause management as highlighted by
the results of acoustic analysis before and after treatment.
While
the first reading by all the subjects showed abundant use of pauses,
with non-syntactic pauses (NSP) accounting for a greater percentage
of the total speech time, confirming illegal pauses as being responsible
for lack of fluency, the second reading of the text by the experimental
group showed a significant reduction in the occurrence of NSP, thus
confirming the efficacy of a well-articulated pedagogical approach
in enhancing fluency through pause frequency reduction.
Bibliographic reference. Mbanefo, Eugenia (2003): "Enhancing fluency in the reading of a French text: an experimental phonetics approach", In ICPhS-15, 2461-2464.