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Phonetics

brian@popear.org Teaching of English Phonetics brianteaman.com (click on Classes/Phonetics) Brian Teaman

This page is being phased out. It is being moved to Teaman OJC Moodle

3. Objectives: The objective of this course will be to study in a practical way these sounds that humans make. Through this knowledge and experience, students will hopefully become better learners, speakers, and teachers of English and other languages.

4. Contents: Students will study the field of general phonetics and explore how it is connected with actual speaking. Students will study the sound systems of world Englishes but also study the sounds of Japanese and other languages. Current issues related to the sounds of these languages will be discussed such as: linguistic issues, dialects, and international Englishes. Each week, students will perform practical exercises for improving the students’ own confidence in themselves as they speak their English and other languages. Students will learn to use computer technologies that offer many different possibilities for teaching, learning and analyzing the sounds of the English.

Methods: Reading, diaries, discussion, computer, writing, lectures, presentations, drama

	Spring	Week 1 Overview of the course, Introduction to Phonetics 
			(first reading: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/ptlc2001/pdf/wrembel.pdf)
			Week 2 The sounds of Japanese 
			register at MASLE and take two tests (welcome and couper)
			Week 3 Computers and Phonetics I Instrumental Phonetics
			Week 4 Computers and Phonetics II Speech
			Week 5 The sounds of English I
			Week 6 The sounds of English II
			Week 7 Sounds in other languages 
			Week 8 Comparative Phonetics
			Week 9 Methods of Teaching the Sounds of Languages I
			Week 10 Methods of Teaching the Sounds of Languages II
			Week 11 Phonetics and Speaking in the Language Curriculum I
			Week 12 Phonetics and Speaking in the Language Curriculum II
			Week 13 Presentation of Research Projects

7. Students are expected to come to class prepared to actively participate in discussions and perform individual and group activities. Students will be expected to read, summarize and react to several articles on the varied topics we will cover. The final project will involve studying in depth one of the topics we have covered. Students will be expected to spend about 4-6 hours each week outside of class doing reading and summarizing, performing exercises, and preparing for class.

8. Texts: Teaching Pronunciation by Celce-Murcia et. al. To be announced, APA manual, readings from instructor, materials from library and on the Internet

10. Method and standards of evaluation:

	Quizzes		15%
	Projects		20%
	Writings		25%
	Homework	 and class work	40%

Resources: http://loondon.com We'll do listening and imitation of some of these speakers.

Kinds of Writings we will do: Article Summaries with and without Reactions

Class on October 16, 2009

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Speaking Skills-reading out loud

Listening skills-listening to peer reading o.l.

Writing S. Transcribing

Content Goals gaining familiarity with h.r. vocabular

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