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.
Phonetics is the scientific study of human speech sound. Study method for classification, identification, description and transcription of human speech sounds; there are three (3) major branches of phonetics in study of phonetics, namely: acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics and auditory phonetics...
This book is concerned with articulatory phonetics, meaning that the main purpose of this book is to teach the reader how to recognize, record, and reproduce the sounds of any language.
