Sounds english a pronunciation practice book
Sounds English consists of a coursebook which is available separately and this set of three cassettes It aims to train students to pronounce effectively including the accurate production of individual sounds as well as stress and intonation Each unit starts with intensive practice in hearing and saying particular sounds then moves on to real life contexts where stress intonation and sounds are all involved The course can be used in class or by students working on their own A special chart for 15 languages demonstrates which English sound contrasts are difficult for speakers of each language enabling students to plan their own study programme It is aimed at intermediate to upper intermediate students Sounds EnglishPhonetics is a subject that if poorly taught can seem austere and difficult Doc O Connor who has died of pneumonia aged 78 was a phonetician whose lectures were witty and effortlessly informative and whose writing was elegant and readable Generations of students continue to be grateful to his textbooks particularly his Penguin Phonetics and for students of English as a second language his Better English Pronunciation.
Book Sounds english learning He grew up in Harrogate where his father was at one time mayor and came to University College London in 1937 to read French Having gained a First he joined the Royal Armoured Corps rising by the end of the war to the rank of Major But he had made such an impression on those who taught him French phonetics that Phonetics is a subject that if poorly taught can seem austere and difficult Doc O Connor who has died of pneumonia aged 78 was a phonetician whose lectures were witty and effortlessly informative and whose writing was elegant and readable Generations of students continue to be grateful to his textbooks particularly his Penguin Phonetics and for students of English as a second language his Better English Pronunciation.
Sounds englishradar He grew up in Harrogate where his father was at one time mayor and came to University College London in 1937 to read French Having gained a First he joined the Royal Armoured Corps rising by the end of the war to the rank of Major But he had made such an impression on those who taught him French phonetics that in 1945 Daniel Jones the founder and head of the Department of Phonetics at UCL succeeded in arranging his early demobilization and appointed him to the teaching staff.
Sounds englishradar Gimson formed a group of colleagues very much at ease with one another and with their students They set the tone for much of British phonetics in the period 1950 1980 deftly leavening Jones s magisterial formulations with influences from the structuralist linguistics that was then all the rage in the United States None of them had much time though for the Chomskyan revolution that displaced it Doc s lasting scholarly contribution is likely to be in the study of English intonation This is a topic always in danger of being rendered seriously boring by experimental phoneticians who take precise measurements of the fundamental frequency of the voice but fail to extract insightful linguistic generalizations from their findings Descriptions of this kind also offer nothing for the student of English as a foreign language EFL to latch onto Many people in the 50 s were struggling towards a linguistic codification of English intonation but it was Doc with his colleague Gordon Arnold who first succeeded in formulating a description that made sense to the language learner while remaining substantially true to the facts No less importantly they devised a notation system that was elegantly iconic and concise Their Intonation of Colloquial English 1961 has now scandalously been allowed to go out of print except in a Japanese adaptation but no better textbook has been published that could supersede it.
Book Sounds english Doc remained on the phonetics staff at UCL throughout the rest of his career smartly accepting early retirement in 1980 in order it was generally believed to avoid having to become Head of Department For the rest of his life he devoted himself principally to the Ickenham Cricket Club where at one time or another he filled every post from washer up to President site_link For his publications and site_link site_link
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