PhoneticsIn this section you will find the articles to help you build pronunciation supporting skills, pronunciation practice tasks to be covered in the class (tongue-twisters, reading rules, articulation and intonation practice tasks, etc), guidelines for phonetics to inform you about the major phonetic issues (articulator and functional aspects of English speech sounds, the syllable, the words stress, the sentence stress, the prosodic system of English, etc), articles on the pronunciation varieties/accents of English, list of dictionaries of English Pronunciation and the glossary of the phonetic terms. Subcategories
Building Pronunciation Supporting SkillsImproving your pronunciation skills will help you succeed in language learning in two ways: you will improve your understanding of spoken English and do better on the tasks that involve listening; you will improve the clarity and comprehensibility of your own speech and perform better on the speaking tasks. View items...
Pronunciation Practice TasksIn this section you will find a great number of tasks to improve your English pronunciation, namely standard English pronunciation that is known as Received Pronunciation (RP) or BBC accent. You will have an opportunity to practice articulating every English sound, words, word combination, utterances, intonation groups, etc. View items...
Pronunciation Varieties/Accents of EnglishIn this section we will examine English as a polyethnic language or a nationally heterogeneous language in which exists a great variety in terms of pronunciation: national types of pronunciation (British English, American English, New Zealand English, etc), territorial and regional varieties (dialects) that include their accents. View items...
Guidelines for PhoneticsIn this section you will learn about the major areas of phonetics and find out why they are so important as well as identify phonetics as an essential part of the subject of linguistics. This section will help you reveal the hidden secrets of phonetics that is as the great British scholar Henry Sweet said 'the indispensable foundation' for the study of the language whose view is as valid today as it was a hundred years ago. View items... |
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