PPT-Pronunciation at a Glance

Judy Thompson The Problem with English Letters dont represent sounds No one knows what words sound like from reading them blue through you who two do few shoe due boo. for hours brPage 6br The sha e of the The sha e of the world was an world was an enigma enigma that that enigma enigma that that befuddled people befuddled people for years for years for years for years brPage 7br brPage 8br brPage 9br brPage 10br b Initialisms. A case study. Amanda . Payne. What are acronyms & . Initialisms. ?. In most cases, they are considered to be the same thing – “a word formed from the initial letters of other words”. For example - “scuba”.. Pronunciation 1 Ching Kang Liu National Taipei University ckliu@mail.ntpu.edu.tw http://web.ntpu.edu.tw/~ckliu/pronunciation/pronunciation.htm 2 Articulation positions of consonants Overview Hard palate Soft palate Language Learning . (CALL. ). References. : . “An Overview of Spoken Language Technology for Education”, Speech Communications, 51, pp.832-844, 2009. “Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) Systems”, Tutorial, . EFL learners’ acquisition of . English pronunciation?. Yi-Hui Chiu. Presented by . Chaelin. Yu. The effects of film dubbing projects were investigated in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) conversation classes. http://www.languageguide.org/french/grammar/pronunciation/index.html. La . Prononciation. . Française. : . Partie. I. Les voyelles . English speakers tend to "stretch" or distort vowels giving rise to what are called diphthongs (for a more exaggerated example, think of a southern accent and how the vowel sounds are drawled). . Towards Improving Spoken English. English Pronunciation for Malaysians. What. . is. . the. . difference?. . 2. English Consonants. (unvoiced phonemes). Place of Articulation. Front → ------------------------------------------------------------------------→ Back. TEAM Workshop. Teaching ESL for excellence. 2 April 2011. Fluency:. Linking of Consonant & Vowel Sounds. one evening .  . o . neevening. a serious accident .  . a . seriou. . saccident. WELCOME!!!. Instructors:. Melissa Smith. . and Sabina Simon. Class Time:. Monday, Wednesday. 1:30-. 3pm. Goals & Perspectives. Take . 3. minutes to write down 3 goals that you would like to work on during this pronunciation class.. UNIT 1: MEASUREMENT. LOOK AT THE PICTURES. IN PAIRS MAKE QUESTIONS. . UNIT 1: MEASUREMENT. MEASUREMENT QUIZ. UNIT 1: MEASUREMENT. 1. . What. . can. . be. . odd. and . even. ?. UNIT 1: MEASUREMENT. Lynn Henrichsen. Pronunciation . t. eaching in China. Unlikely that you will teach an entire course on pronunciation. HIGHLY likely (unavoidable) that you will teach pronunciation in one way or another. Julia Hirschberg. CS 4706. 2/18/12. 2. Today. Motivation. Challenges for automatic word pronunciation. Standard methods. Innovative solutions. 2/18/12. 3. 2/18/12. 3. TTS demos:. AT. &T . Cepstral . $ $ 4.8%1.7%$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ Page 1 of 4Information subject to change