 Price$400 |  Duration20 hours (over 10 weeks) |  DeliveryOnline |  Starts19 May 2025 |
About this course
English Pronunciation Skills for the Workplace is a short course designed to develop your understanding of the principles of English pronunciation, and to equip yourself with the analytical and practical skills to target and improve the more challenging aspects of pronunciation. The course aims to develop your clarity and ease in spoken English in ways that are valued in the global workplace. Throughout this course, strong emphasis is placed on communication and active practice.
This 20-hour course runs over ten weeks (2 hours per week) and classes are synchronously timetabled. You will be actively engaged in activities on a wide range of topics, and you will receive personalised feedback on your participation in these activities. Activities in this course include:
- Study of English phonemes
- Guided practice at syllable, word, and sentence level
- Analysis of examples of good speech
- Presentations, discussions and self-reflection
What you will learn
You will learn technical and mechanical aspects of pronunciation, and discuss and practise many pronunciation elements that will equip you to work towards:
- producing specific spoken English pronunciation elements correctly
- analysing recorded speech and identifying aspects of pronunciation
- speaking at length with an awareness of correct English vocal qualities
- identifying, analysing and correcting own English pronunciation errors
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Lessons
- Discussion
- Review of basic elements (phonemes, rhythm, stress)
- Self and teacher analysis
- Connected speech and linking
- Dialogue practice
- Tips on how to pronounce tricky words
- Reading aloud
- Stress and pausing/chunking
- Common word stress patterns
- Stress for new information
- Pausing
- Listening
- Recording
- Elision and new sound production in connected speech
- Intonation
- Composing and conducting a survey
- Study and practice of various formulations involving consonants, including consonant clusters and word endings
- Using rhyming verse to access English language rhythm
- Practicing pronunciation elements
- Practice and reading aloud at length
- Building fluency
- Group reading aloud
- Speaking on topic at length
- Review
- Question and answer
- Targeted exercises
- Preparation and practice
- Trouble-shooting and support
- Reflection
- Presentation
- Teacher, peer and self-assessment
Meet your instructor
Kate Kruimink is an English Language Teacher with over a decade of experience teaching in Australia and New Zealand, including extensive experience in pronunciation.
She is an award-winning author with a particular interest in both the artistic and the practical communicative purposes of English.