ESOL0044 — Pronunciation and Articulation of American English
ESOL 0044 - Pronunciation and Articulation of American English ESOL 0044 - Pronunciation and Articulation of American English Hours/Week: Lecture 2 Lab 0 Course Description: This course, intended for intermediate and advanced students, focuses on and provides practice in articulating the sounds of American English. Classroom and computer-based activities will show how to produce more precise consonants, consonant clusters and vowels. Students will also practice intonation and stress patterns of American English. Students will use the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) to better understand the differences between written and spoken language. This course requires two hours of additional practice in the language lab plus two hours of homework per week. MnTC Goals None Major Content /l/ blends such as (pl, bl, cl) /r/ and /l/ co-articulation (girl, world) /r/ blends such as (pr, br, fr) /s/ and /w/ blends Auditory discrimination and auditory image Consonant clusters (spl, spr, str) Consonant sounds: stops (b, p, t, d, k, g), fricatives( th, f, v, s, z, sh), affricates (ch, j), nasals (m, n, ng), approximates(r, l, y, w) Final consonants and final blends Flaps/taps (water), and glottal stops (button) Flaps/taps (water), and glottal stops (button) Frequently mispronounced words (work /walk, hungry/angry) Introduction to a phonetic system (IPA) Linking and reductions Linking and reductions Rate, rhythm, volume and phrasing Repair strategies in conversation Sentence melody and str