AJ11501 Spoken Fluency Practice

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Kateřina Tomková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJ11501/A: Wed 11:40–13:15 G21, K. Tomková
AJ11501/B: Tue 10:00–11:35 G21, K. Tomková
AJ11501/C: Thu 16:40–18:15 G21, K. Tomková
AJ11501/D: Thu 18:20–19:55 G21, K. Tomková
AJ11501/E: No timetable has been entered into IS. K. Tomková
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination && !NOW( AJ13001 Academic Writing )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 90 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/90, only registered: 0/90, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/90
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Course objectives
This course is compulsory for students of English and optional for those outside the English department. Once students become aware of the constituents of a good spoken performance and realize what their strong and weak skills are, pronunciation is practised in depth over the first five weeks. Students then prepare 30-minute presentations treating other speaking skills such as grammar, idiom and specific vocabulary. They participate in an ongoing project, a collection of commonly made pronunciation errors.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: Profile of a fluent speaker. Collection of pronunciation errors. Segmental and suprasegmental training with a nursery rhyme. Week 2: Segmental exercises. Week 3: Tongue twisters. Week 4: Stress patterns. Week 5: The Chaos by Trenite. Weeks 6-11: Presentations. Credit week: Peer assessment.
Literature
  • Tibbits: English Stress Patterns; Wells: Intonation
  • Individual, according to presentation topic
Assessment methods
This is a peer assessed course. Each student ranks presentations in a final scale. 80% of the final mark is the average of fellow students' points (max. 80) for the student's presentation, the main criterion being how useful it was for their speaking practice. The teacher awards up to 20 pts for attendance, active class participation and progress made. Resits which take the form of Cambridge oral examination can be taken during the examination period.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Spring 2000, Autumn 2000, Spring 2001, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021.
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