Intro
In this course, you will practise important elements of English pronunciation that make a difference to meaning, communicative ease and comprehension. You will learn about basic sound distinctions as well as the phenomenon of word stress. Through exercises with and feedback from your peers you will find out what pronunciation aspects to address. You will have the chance to tackle difficulties.
We will cover aspects such as individual meaning-changing speech sounds and how to pronounce them so that they actually sound different, but also how to give prominence to the right syllables in a word, which is needed because English word stress is fixed and enables a listener to identify a word as the one you mean. Connected speech, sentence stress, and intonation will also be practised. By improving pronunciation, your ability to distinguish sounds and understand speech will also improve. You develop phonetic awareness, apply rules for pronouncing English word endings, increase familiarity with varieties of spoken English, and adapt your pronunciation to different purposes of oral English.
Target audience
This course is open to learners and users of English from B2 upwards who want to know more about English sounds and stress patterns and improve their pronunciation, intelligibility and confidence.
- Teacher: Iris Schaller-Schwaner