Busbee, Everette (1998). A small "content course" in English phonology, 53(1), 41-71.

mong trends in EFL teaching is toward "content courses," which provide a classroom with the comprehensible input necessary for language acquisition, and which overcome the artificiality of communication in the typical communicative classroom by teaching subject matter in English. Another trend in EFL teaching is to view listening and pronunciation as so interrelated that the improvement of one is accompanied by improvement in the other.

Accordingly, poor listening skills and poor pronunciation among Korean university EFL students suggest a double need for more opportunities to hear English that can be comprehended, as well as a need for instruction in the theory of how English is actually spoken. Because adult EFL students can put their intellect to work to learn English faster than children, an appropriate subject for university EFL students is English phonology emphasizing suprasegmentals, which are receiving increased attention as elements of communication. With this in mind, a series of fifteen 5- to 15-minute lectures was developed for weekly presentation during a semester-long conversation course for high beginners or above.