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ENG141: The English Sound System
ENG 141 is a three - unit course that is taught in the first semester of the B.A English Programme. It introduces you to the basic concepts and techniques of spoken English. It is also designed to equip you with the ability to speak English in a variety of social and academic situations, and to enhance your understanding of academic and non-academic spoken discourse.
What Will You Learn?
Throughout the duration of this course, you will be exposed to activities and techniques that will help to increase your confidence and stimulate further learning in speech communication. The course lays particular emphasis on your ability to recognise and articulate the sounds used in spoken English. Subsequently, special practices aimed at learning the relevant articulatory skills and extracting information from listening texts are also provided – these skills are used as the basis for developing your ‘discussion skills.’
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At the end of this course, you should be able to:
• Articulate English sounds and pronounce English words correctly describe in detail, major features of English pronunciation
• Identify and correct pronunciation errors
• Develop your articulatory skills and abilities especially as an audience
• Centered communicator
• Recognize and use stress and intonation correctly.
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Human Speech Mechanism
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