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Clear Speech from the Start Pilot edition: Basic Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English
Clear Speech from the Start Pilot edition Basic Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English Author:Judy B. Gilbert Clear Speech from the Start offers a unique and creative approach to improving the pronunciation and listening comprehension of beginning ESL/EFL students. Like its higher-level counterpart,Clear Speech this new text concentrates on teaching students to recognize and produce those features that will make an important difference in their ability... more » to understand speakers of English and be understood by them. These features include speech sounds that carry specific grammatical meaning, such as the plural -s and the past tense -ed ending, as well as vowel length, syllable rhythm, word linking, stress, and intonation. The text uses an innovative graphics-based approach specifically designed for beginning students. Each feature is clearly described with a graphic icon that communicates in a visual mode, so that complicated descriptions of sound features are unnecessary and instructions can be kept to a minimum.« less