Improve Your Pronunciation Beginner Focus A helps the student to become a good language learner and teaches ways to improve pronunciation, fluency, delivery and listening skills. Students will: make a learning journal; give oral presentations; understand the meaning in English sounds and practice real speech forms and features; they will begin to study sounds in English; practice stress, rhythm, intonation in English; contrast stress, rhythm, intonation sound system of English with learner language. Course delivery involves language and content appropriate to CLB levels 3 and 4.
Prerequisites
CLB 2 Listening, CLB 2 Speaking.
Course type
This is a standalone course that can be taken individually without enrolling in a VCC program.
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- 1. Long and short vowels 2. Vowels + R 3. Consonants with long and short vowels 4. Variable sounds of some consonants 5. Relationship of sounds and spelling 6. Consonants; distinct speech sounds and gestures, i.e. voiced and voiceless, affricative etc. 7. Word endings present and past tense
Course schedules
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† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.