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ELSK 0346: Improve Your Pronunciation Beginner Focus A
Effective date
January 2020
Department
ESL Pathways
School
Arts and Sciences
Description
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.
Credits
0.0
Year of study
Prerequisites
CLB 2 Listening, CLB 2 Speaking.
Corequisites
None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Use a variety of techniques and strategies to improve pronunciation, fluency, and delivery in beginner level English
- Demonstrate improved beginner level listening and comprehension through study of sound features of authentic English speech with special attention to stress, rhythm, intonation.
- Identify and produce elements of stress, rhythm, intonation sound system in beginner level English.
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)
None
Hours
Lecture, Online, Seminar, Tutorial: 40
Total Hours: 40
Total Hours: 40
Instructional Strategies
Ongoing needs analysis and feedback; recorded speech sample contribution and analysis; pair, group and whole class discussion; use of audio lab; Moodle; case studies; videos, lectures, and demonstrations.
Grading System
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Passing grade
60%
Evaluation Plan
|
Type |
Percentage |
Assessment activity |
|
Portfolio |
48 |
4 Oral Journal Entries and Transcriptions |
|
Assignments |
24 |
3 Recorded Oral Presentations with self analysis by rubric and transcriptions |
|
Quizzes/Tests |
15 |
Authentic Speech Analysis; Supra-Segmentals (stress, rhythm, intonation) |
|
Participation |
13 |
Active Class Involvement |
Course topics
- 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
Notes:
- Course contents and descriptions, offerings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
- Students are required to follow all College policies including ones that govern their educational experience at VCC. Policies are available on the VCC website at:
https://www.vcc.ca/about/governance--policies/policies/. - To find out if there are existing transfer agreements for this course, visit the BC Transfer Guide at https://www.bctransferguide.ca.