Phonetikforschung und Prosodie-Didaktik online: Podcasts und Videos im DaF-Unterricht

This article deals with German phonetics and prosody in research and teaching in view of the strong digital orientation to which Covid19-bound lockdown has forced researchers and teachers since spring 2020. Phonetic and phonological theory and the practice of German as a Foreign Language (DaF)-teaching addressed to Italian learners form the basis of the observation: first, the paper presents phonetic and prosodic characteristics of adult Italian learners’ oral production in L2 German, then it discusses how public speeches can be used in online DaF-courses in order to correct and eliminate the typical foreign accent shown by Italian learners of German. An outline of relevant aspects of German prosody for this specific group of learners is performed on the basis of authentic speech material.