ZS1BK_AV1B Pronunciation Practice 1B - AJ

Faculty of Education
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0/8. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Renata Jančaříková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Naděžda Vojtková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ivana Hrozková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Prerequisites
The Students are expected to be at the Pre-Intermediate level.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objective of the course is to develop students' speaking skills and improve students' pronunciation with focus on individual sounds as well as prosodic features.
At the end of the course students should be able to differentiate between typical English sounds, be aware of differences between words arising from their pronunciation in order to be able to serve as a good model for their future students.
Syllabus
  • During the course students will work on the following features:
  • 1. Word stress
  • 2. Sentence stress
  • 3. Pronunciation of -ing
  • 4. Long and short vowels
  • 5. Stress and rhythm
  • 6. Sentence stress, -ion endings
  • 7. -ed endings, sentence stress - questions
  • 8. Contrasting vowels
  • 9. Contrasting consonants
  • 10. Linking
  • 11. Revision of vowel sounds
  • 12. Revision of consonant sounds
  • 13. Credit test
Literature
  • OAKLANDOVÁ, Gabriela. A workbook of English pronunciation for teachers. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 43 s. ISBN 8021039337. info
  • OAKLANDOVÁ, Gabriela. A Workbook of English Pronunciation for Teachers II. Brno: MU, 2006, 44 pp. info
  • OXENDEN, Clive and Christina LATHAM-KOENIG. New English file. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 159 s. ISBN 9780194518000. info
  • HORNBY, Albert Sydney. Oxford advanced learner's dictionary : of current English. Edited by Sally Wehmeier - Michael Ashby. 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, xii, 1539. ISBN 0194315851. info
  • FRONEK, Josef. Anglicko-český, česko-anglický slovník. 1. vyd. Voznice: LEDA, 1998, xxxvii, 12. ISBN 8085927489. info
  • English phonetics and phonology : a practical course. Edited by Peter Roach. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, x, 262. ISBN 0521407192. info
  • MACCARTHY, Peter Arthur Desmond. English pronunciation : a practical handbook for the foreign learner. Cambridge: W. Heffer, 1944, viii, 179. info
Assessment methods
Requirements: assigned homework, active participation; 2 progress tests
Methods: discussions, group work activities, pair work activities, listening to authentic materials
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
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