ELSK 0646: Improve Your Pronunciation Intermediate Focus A
Effective date
February 2017
Description
Improve Your Pronunciation Intermediate Focus A promotes autonomous learning and the teaching of strategies that lead to improved pronunciation, fluency, delivery and listening skills. Key components of the course are oral journals; oral presentations; phonological analysis and practice of authentic speech forms and features; phonological analysis and practice of the supra-segmental (stress, rhythm, intonation) sound system of English; contrasting the suprasegmental (stress, rhythm, intonation) sound system of English with learner language. Course delivery involves language and content appropriate to CLB levels 5 and 6.
Year of study
Post-secondary Preparatory
Prerequisites
CLB 4 Listening, CLB 4 Speaking.
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 intermediate level English
- Demonstrate improved intermediate level listening comprehension through analysis of phonological features of authentic English speech with special attention to supra-segmentals (stress, rhythm, intonation)
- Identify and produce elements of the supra-segmental (stress, rhythm, intonation) sound system in intermediate level English
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)
None
Hours
Lecture, Online, Seminar, Tutorial: 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
Evaluation Plan
Type
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Percentage
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Assessment activity
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Portfolio
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48
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4 Oral Journal Contributions and Transcriptions
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Assignments
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24
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3 Recorded Oral Presentations with self-analysis by rubric and/or transcriptions
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Quizzes/Tests
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15
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Authentic Speech Analysis; Supra-Segmentals (stress, rhythm, intonation)
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Participation
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13
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Active Class Involvement
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Course topics
- Word Stress and Vowel Reduction
- Sentence Level Stress and Unstress
- Intonation
- Contrastive Analysis
- Strategies and techniques specific to improvements in pronunciation, fluency, delivery and listening in intermediate level English
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.