Improve Your Pronunciation Beginner Focus A helps the student to become a good language learner and teaches ways to improve pronunciation, fluency, delivery and listening skills. Students will: make a learning journal; give oral presentations; understand the meaning in English sounds and practice real speech forms and features; they will begin to study sounds in English; practice stress, rhythm, intonation in English; contrast stress, rhythm, intonation sound system of English with learner language. Course delivery involves language and content appropriate to CLB levels 3 and 4.
Prerequisites
CLB 2 Listening, CLB 2 Speaking.
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What you will learn
- 1. Long and short vowels
2. Vowels + R
3. Consonants with long and short vowels
4. Variable sounds of some consonants
5. Relationship of sounds and spelling
6. Consonants; distinct speech sounds and gestures, i.e. voiced and voiceless, affricative etc.
7. Word endings present and past tense
How to register
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
Course schedules
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Contact us
If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.
† 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.