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Students learn to improve their English fluency and pronunciation so as to increase their intelligibility and acceptability by native speaker standards; acquire detailed knowledge of articulatory and contrastive phonetics and learn to apply this to their own pronunciation skills; improve their listening comprehension and learn to transcribe sounds using phonetic symbols; learn principles of phonological analysis; learn core concepts of phonological theory ; engage with topics in phonetics and phonology in written and spoken communication.
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This course offers an introduction to the sound system of British and American English (phonology and phonetics). It is designed to help native speakers of Dutch improve their English pronunciation, fluency and listening comprehension in a variety of ways. These closely connected skills will be discussed, practised and reflected on within the context of articulatory and contrastive phonetics.
Note: Students who have already learnt North American English should not buy Sounding Better (which teaches British Received Pronunciation) but Accepted American English (which teaches General American pronunciation) instead. This coursebook may be ordered from www.walvaboek.nl.
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