ZS1BK_AV1B Pronunciation Practice 1B - AJ

Faculty of Education
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.7. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Michaela Sojková Šamalová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Gabriela Oaklandová
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
ZS1BK_AV1B/OS01: Fri 17. 2. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 24. 2. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 2. 3. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 9. 3. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 16. 3. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 23. 3. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 6. 4. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 13. 4. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 27. 4. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 4. 5. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 11. 5. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, Fri 18. 5. 8:00–9:20 učebna 38, M. Sojková Šamalová
Prerequisites
The Students are expected to be at the Intermediate level.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields 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: - sentence stress - s or z - ough and augh - th - consonant sounds - word stress - intonation in question tags - linking
Literature
    required literature
  • OXENDEN, Clive and Christina LATHAM-KOENIG. New English file. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 176 s. ISBN 9780194519106. info
    recommended 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
  • 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
Teaching methods
speaking practice, listening, tests
Assessment methods
Requirements: credit test (based on pronunciation activities from New English File Intermediate, Files 4 - 7)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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