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EL00732: Listening and pronunciation

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Academic Skills Centre
Credits: 0      [equivalent to 0 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: See Director of Studies for further information
Level: Non-credit (FHEQ level n/a)
Period:
Semester 1
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: Not applicable
Assessment Detail:
  • Not Applicable
Supplementary Assessment:
Not applicable
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
The course aims to improve individual student awareness and accuracy of production of segmental and suprasegmental features of speech and target individual pronunciation needs in order to produce effective comprehensible speech.
The course develops learners' listening skills in order to follow lectures, engage in seminars and participate in group discussions.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course, students will have
* increased confidence in the decoding of connected speech.
* improved accuracy of spoken production.

Skills:
During the course students will have practised the skills of:
* understanding a variety of listening texts
* recognising and producing individual phonemes
* recognising and using features of connected speech including stress, phrasing, linking for fluency, intonation and clarity of communication
* producing comprehensible speech

Content:

* input through listening
* analysis and description of features of connected speech
* opportunities to practise distinguishing features of connected speech
* opportunities to produce effective comprehensible speech.
Programme availability:

EL00732 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

Academic Skills Centre

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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