Course

Semester 1

Pronunciation

The course is designed to assist students in enhancing their spoken proficiency for communication purposes in general and their pronunciation in particular. In specific, it is meant to familiarize students with English speech sounds (segmental) and supra segmental. In general, the course is divided into two parts. In the first part, the practice focuses on the English speech sounds (consonants, vowels and diphthongs). Students will practice pronouncing words, phrases and sentences which contain the focus sounds in each meeting. In the second parts, the practice focuses on the supra segmental (stress, rhythm and intonation). During the process, corrections are always provided as the feedback to the students’ pronunciation problems both directly by the lecturer and the available soft wares (online soft wares), i.e. Oxford Advance Learners, Cambridge Longman, and Merriam-Webster Dictionaries. Besides, differences between British and American English are also highlighted.

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