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Onsite Programs - For Foreign Born Employees
Intensive Pronunciation Workshop
Goal
This accent reduction workshop is for foreign-born professionals who want a fast-paced, intensive overview of the "troublespots" of American pronunciation. Participants will reduce errors in pronunciation and speak more clearly.
Objectives
- Identify and practice the sounds most frequently mispronounced by non-native speakers (accent reduction)
- Control rate of speech
- Use native speakers' vowel length, word stress, and rhythm patterns
- Expand jaw movement to enunciate clearly
- Manipulate voicing and pitch to imitate American sounds
- Learn techniques for continued self-improvement
Methodology
Group, paired, and individual exercises; daily practice with Intensive Pronunciation manual and audiotapes or CDs. Enrollment is limited to 4 - 12 persons per class.
Scheduling
This 15-hour training program is offered in two formats:
- 2-day workshop
- 4 half-day sessions
What You Learn
Articulation
- Learn and practice the correct mouth and tongue positions for accurate sound production
- Improve sound discrimination through focused listening
- Practice vowel sounds and vowel length for better volume and clarity
- Articulate consonant sounds to improve diction
- Brainstorm high-frequency workplace vocabulary which uses the sounds covered in the workshop
- Practice pronunciation of word endings that have grammatical significance to listeners
- Target areas of particular difficulty for individual review and practice
Word Stress, Rhythm, Intonation and Linking
- Become aware of the underlying rhythm of American English
- Identify and reproduce word, phrase, and sentence stress
- Practice a range of common intonation patterns, from basic statements and questions to more emphatic speech
- Apply rules for linking words to create smoother-sounding statements and questions
Non-native speakers of English.
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