Improve Your Pronunciation Advanced Focus A (ELSK 0666)
Improve Your Pronunciation Advanced 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 supra-segmental (stress, rhythm, intonation) sound system of English with learner language. Course delivery involves language and content appropriate to CLB levels 7 through 9.
Course code: ELSK 0666
Credits: 0.0
Length: 40.0 hours
Campus: Broadway
Broadway
Course outline:
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Prerequisites
CLB 6 Listening, CLB 6 Speaking.
| CRN # | Dates | Day/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|
| 42157 | February 3, 2025 to March 31, 2025 | See full schedule Delivery: Online with Scheduled Classes Location: Online |
| CRN # | Dates | Day/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|
| 61460 | June 3, 2025 to July 24, 2025 | See full schedule Delivery: Online with Scheduled Classes Location: Online |
Additional Information
- 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 advanced level English
† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.