Well Said Intro by Linda Grant

Well Said Intro by Linda Grant

Offering a lively and communicative approach for increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said Intro provides beginning to mid-intermediate students with the pronunciation and speaking tools they need to communicate in social, academic, and professional settings.

UNIT 1Getting Started. 1. Your Pronunciation Needs. 2. Setting Goals. 3. Syllables and Dictionary Basics. UNIT 2. Word Endings. 4. Final Consonant Sounds and Linking. 5. Syllables and -s Endings. 6. Syllables and -ed Endings. UNIT 3. Stress in Words. 7. Stressed Syllables - Nouns, Verbs, and Numbers. 8. Stressed Syllables - Suffixes. UNIT 4. Rhythm in Sentences. 9. Basic Rhythm - Stressed Words. 10. Basic Rhythm - Reduced Words. UNIT 5. Intonation in Discourse. 11. Focus Words. 12. Intonation: Rising and Falling. 13. Thought Groups and Pausing. UNIT 6. Connected Speech. 14. Change Sound in Connected Speech.

Linda has pursued her interest in first and second language pronunciation for over forty years. She has taught ESL students at Georgia Tech, international teaching assistants at Emory University, and graduate students in applied linguistics at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her special interests are applying pronunciation research to practice and integrating pronunciation into the oral communication curriculum. She is the author of two pronunciation texts, Well Said and Well Said Intro (National Geographic Cengage) and the editor of the teacher resource volume Pronunciation Myths (University of Michigan Press).

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ISBN 13	9781413005103
ISBN 10	1413005101
Title	Well Said Intro
Author	Linda Grant
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published	2006-02-06
Number of pages	240
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