American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice provides an accessible introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of American English. Built around an extensive collection of practice materials, this book teaches the pronunciation of modern standard American English to intermediate and advanced learners worldwide.
American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice is essential reading for any student studying this topic.
Pronunciation and Phonetics: A Practical Guide for English Language Teachers (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)
This engaging, succinct text is an introduction to both phonetics and phonology as applied to the teaching of pronunciation to English language learners. Section 1 selectively covers the main areas of phonetics and phonology, without going into any area in more depth than the average English language teacher requires or that the average English language teacher trainee can handle. Section 2 focuses on practical issues related to learners and how they learn languages, and what represents good practice in terms of classroom activities for pronunciation—including aspects such as targets, motivation and priorities.
This is an undergraduate thesis on the English Department of Syiah Kuala University in Aceh, Indonesia. This thesis describe about the Omission and Punctuation in the Adjective Clause. The theory about performance is also presented in 5 pages.
Homophones are pairs of words that sound the same, but have distinctly different meanings and different spellings. Understanding homophones is an essential part of mastering the English language, both for vocabulary building and spelling.
The Book of Gobbledygook: Plain English Writing for Lousy Writers
If writers in government, big business, organizations and academia are to succeed in these times of new technologies, new demands and new attitudes, we must improve our communications radically. We must abandon soggy formality and incoherence in favor of modern personal communications. "The Book of Gobbledygook: Plain English Writing for Lousy Writers" paves the way of writing clear and concise copy in 16 critical essays.
