Speakout Advanced 2nd Edition

Speakout is a new general English course that helps adult learners gain confidence in all skill areas using authentic materials from the BBC. With its wide range of support material, it meets the diverse needs of learners in a variety of teaching situations and helps to bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world. Speakout has been developed in association with BBC Worldwide and BBC Learning English. 

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Listening in the Real World: Clues to English Conversation has been designed to bridge the gap between the formally enunciated language of the ESL classroom and the informal language that the student is likely to encounter beyond the classroom setting. By concentrating on a series of commonly spoken reductions, the tape-text attempts to make English comprehensible to the ESL student who may have formulated an inaccurate set of expectancies about the way English should sound. The thirty-six lessons of the book are intended to help the student decipher the real world English of reduced forms (assimilations, coarticulations, and glides).

It is a generally recognized fact that the English language presents far greater difficulties with regard to its pronunciation than any other European language. This does not mean that foreigners find it partic' ularly hard to acquire a correct pronunciation ofthe various speech sounds of which English is made up. From this point of view English is not any harder to learn than many other languages.

The present research sets out to give a melodic description of British English intonation which is so explicit that it can be used for the control of pitch in a speech synthesis system. Intonation is studied in accordance with the principles that have been followed with success in the study of Dutch intonation at the Institute for Perception Research. The description is based on a mixture of acoustic and perceptual analysis of speech samples and, using speech resynthesis as a research tool, any claims made are experimentally verified.

A manual on English pronunciation, its text is organized in three parts. Part one is an introduction of selected features of pitch and stress and an inventory of the vowels and consonants. Part two presents some of the patterns commonly associated with combinations of features of intonation, vowels, and consonants. The final part offers assorted exercises.