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ELSK 0347: Improve Your Pronunciation Beginner Focus B
Effective date
April 2020
Department
ESL Pathways
School
Arts and Sciences
Description
Improve Your Pronunciation Beginner Focus B helps the student to become a good language learner and teaches ways to improve pronunciation, fluency, delivery and listening skills. The student will make an oral journal; give oral presentations; learn about sound study and practice real speech forms and features such as consonants and vowels in English; contrasted with the 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 comprehension through analysis of phonological features of authentic English speech with special attention to segmentals (consonants and vowels).
- Identify and produce elements of the segmental (consonants and vowels) 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, 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/or transcriptions |
|
Quizzes/Tests |
15 |
Authentic Speech Analysis; Segmentals (consonants and vowels) |
|
Participation |
13 |
Active Involvement in Class |
Course topics
- 1. Consonants with long and short vowels 2. Variable sounds of some consonants 3. Relationship of sound and spelling 4. Syllables 5. Word Stress 6. Sentence Stress, stress and key words 7. Thought groups and intonation 8. Linking
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.