A tentative
schedule for English Pronunciation:
Instructor: Dr. Ching Kang Liu (National Taipei University)
Tel. (2)8674-6633; E-mail: ckliu@mail.ntpu.edu.tw
Office: Room 6633, Humanity Hall
Class Schedule: Tuesday: 8:10-12:00, July 13/16-August 24/27, 2004
Textbooks
or references
Celce-Murcia, M., Brinton, D. M.,, & Goodwin, J. M. (1996).
Teaching Pronunciation. NY: Cambridge University Press (Crane
in Taipei.)
Avery, P. & Ehrlich, S. (1992). Teaching American English
Pronunciation. NY: Oxford University Press.
Shockey, L. (2003). Sound Patterns of Spoken English. MA:
Blackwell Publishing.
Website of this course
http://web.ntpu.edu.tw/~language/workshop/nccu.htm
Course Description [Top]
This course will be a mixture of lectures discussions
and practices. It is assumed that all attendants are already familiar
with most common knowledge of English phonetics and English pronunciation.
This course, therefore, focuses on revisiting the English phonetic
theories and how they can be applied to instruction of English pronunciation
in class or to self-modification of the trainee's English.
Instruction [Top]
1. Explanation
The instructor will introduce and explain the materials
covered in each lecture, including basic theories, physical features
of sounds, and how to employ different instruments to aid instruction
of English pronunciation.
2. Practice
There are two types of practice: one is the drill
part in class led by the instructor; the other, drills outside class.
All the materials needed for self-paced drills will be available
on the website posted above and all attendants are expected to do
the drill after each section of the class materials is completed.
Assessment and Evaluation [Top]
Quizzes (or pop quizzes) will be given almost every
lecture. Reviewing exams will be given when every two sectiions
are completed. Other forms of formative evaluation (including assignment
and participation in class) will also be employed to provide attendants
with different backgrounds with multiple opportunities to demonstrate
their learning and improvement. The final grades are based on all
the scores cumulated from the evaluations mentioned above.
Percentage of Grading:
1. Participation, homework, & quizzes = 50%
2. Review tests = 25%
3. Final exam = 25% (Total = 100%)
A Tentative Weekly
Calendar (Subject to change for instruction reasons)
Schedule for Week 1 [Top]
| Date |
Time |
Instruction
& Drill |
Homework |
| 7/6
|
8:10-9:20 |
Getting ready for this course (including
identifying each attendants) and introducing the articulation
positions related to English pronunciation. |
Transcribe the following oral
passage into a narrow transcription:
"When a student from another country comes to study in
the United States, he has to find out for himself the answers
to many questions."
Due date: July 13 (before the class begins) |
| 9:30-10:40 |
Introducing IPA phonetic symbols
and how a narrow transcription can be applied to instruction
of English pronunciation. Providing some examples and compare
how IPA differs from KK (which is well-known to most English
teachers). |
10:50-12:25
|
Discussing current theories of
pronunciation teaching. |
Schedule for Week 2 [Top]
| Date |
Time |
Instruction
& Drill |
Homework |
| 7/13
|
8:10-10:00 |
Observing physical
features of English vowels and how each sound is composed
with these features; trying to find a reasonable mechanism
that helps both instruction and self-improvement of the pronunciation
of English vowels |
1.
Read "Reading 1" assigned on the website;
2. Practice all the vowels discussed in class, the sound files
will be provided on the website. |
| 10:20-12:25 |
Practicing each vowel and trying to find remedies
to common ¡§deviations¡¨ by applying a unique mechanism that governs
the ¡§moves¡¨ necessary for English pronunciation |
Schedule for Week 3 [Top]
|
Date |
Time |
Instruction
& Drill |
Homework |
| 8/10
|
8:10-10:00 |
Basic features of English consonants
and how each consonant is related to or affected by adjacent
vowels; observing the contrasts of how English consonants
and Mandarin consonants behave in different phonological environments
related to vowels
|
Practice the vowels practiced
in class
|
| 10:20-12:25 |
Practicing each consonant and trying
to understand how each consonant should be pronounced properly
in the context; tryring to distinguish different ways of performance
of English consonants in real speech |
Schedule for Week 4 [Top]
|
Date |
Time |
Instruction
& Drill |
Homework |
| 8/11
|
1:10-3:00 |
Basic features of English consonants
and how each consonant is related to or affected by adjacent
vowels; observing the contrasts of how English consonants
and Mandarin consonants behave in different phonological environments
related to vowels
|
1. Find some similar examples
related to to assimilation and dissimilation in any language
other than English;
2. Practice the sounds covered in this section
|
| 3:20-5:25 |
Practicing each consonant
and trying to understand how each consonant should be pronounced
properly in the context; tryring to distinguish different ways
of performance of English consonants in real speech |
Schedule for Week 5 [Top]
|
Date
|
Time
|
Instruction & Drill
|
Homework
|
|
8/17
|
8:10-10:00
|
English clustering effects
and "Stress and rhythm" in English; starting from
stress of single words to the stress (pitch accent) of the
whole intonation unit, including the rhythm of any expressions
made up of by one or more than one word
|
1. Find some similar examples
related to to assimilation and dissimilation in any language
other than English;
2. Create your own examples that can help instruction of
English stress and rhythm (Due date: August 18, before class
begins).
|
| 10:20-12:25 |
Continued |
Schedule for Week 6 [Top]
| Date |
Time |
Instruction
& Drill |
Homework |
| 8/18
|
1:10-3:00 |
Continuing the topic of
"Stress and rhythm"; focusing on the rhythm of any
expressions made up of by one or more than one word; contrasting
the stress of the tonal language and the intonational language |
1. Create your own examples
that can help instruction of English stress and rhythm (Due
date: August 24, before class begins). |
| 3:20-5:25 |
Practicing stress and rhythm of English and
trying to figure out how theories of ¡§stress and rhythm¡¨ can
be applied to instruction of English pronunciation |
Schedule for Week 7 [Top]
| Date |
Time |
Instruction
& Drill |
Homework |
| 8/24
|
8:10-10:00 |
Intonation; contrasting
intonation languages and tone languages and how the differences
might interfere with language learner's intonation? What the
real data tells us about intonation and what can we be inspired?
How theories of intonation can be applied to instruction of
English pronunciation |
1. Record your own sound samples
and compare them with the samples provided on the website
(Due August 25, before class begins). |
| 10:20-12:25 |
Continued |
Schedule for Week 8 [Top]
| Date |
Time |
Instruction
& Drill |
Homework |
| 8/25
|
1:10-3:00 |
Continuing wrapping
up the materials discussed in this course and summarizing
theories of instruction of English pronunciation and searching
for one or more than one that may help in English classes |
Hand in the final
report (in no more than 3 pages, typed) |
| 3:20-5:25 |
Continued |
|