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International students usually go through a painful period of adjustment in their new surroundings. This period is even more challenging when the student is a Teaching Assistant. The Academic Spoken English Program, which is a part of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Florida, strives to help international students make this adjustment as smooth as possible. |
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Are you lost in Pronunciation Land? Are you desperately seeking directions to find your way through the mysterious hidden alleys of speech and communication? If so, you have come to the right place! Kick off your shoes, relax and enjoy your journey through the exciting websites listed below created to help improve your oral skills.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab is a great site to test your listening
skills. Scroll down to the section Listening Quizzes for Academic
Purposes and choose from interesting topics such as "Doctor's
Appointment", "Dream Team X" and "A Visitor from Space", which are
marked according to their degree of difficulty - medium, difficult or very
difficult.
students. At this site you learn that the pronunciation and spelling of a
word in English doesn't always match. Word stress, Sentence stress,
Linking words and the Pronunciation of '-ed' are other areas you may
explore.
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accented speakers in the workplace. Once you get to this website, click on
The Accent Tutor Online. Check out the sections on American English
Speech, Dialogues, Slang and Idioms, and Tongue Tanglers. The
American English Speech section includes the Language Based
Directory. Click on your native language to find the American English
consonant and vowel sounds that are difficult for speakers of your native
language
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beneficial to all learners of English. Wander through the intricacies of
SEGMENTALS, which teach you about consonants, vowels, clusters,
-s endings, -ed endings, and the /siy/ sound and of
SUPRASEGMENTALS, which include stress, intonation, blending,
rhythm, thought groups and the use of can and can't.
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movies to walk you through the pronunciation of certain confusing pairs of
sounds. Have no one to help you with dictations? Guess what! This
website has dictations you can take. Impress your friends with some
of the tongue twisters you find here.
diagramatic explanation of the voice, place, mannerism and method
of describing speech sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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of speech to enable a better understanding of how to speak American
English more clearly. The five areas explored are: speech sounds,
word stress, linking, rhythm and intonation.
have created material for EFL learners. The Listening Exercises include
splendid tasks such as Logic and Crossword Puzzles with Sound
Clues, Hidden Words and Treasure Hunts.In Connected Speech, more importance is given to ease of communication
rather than complete accuracy. Find out how this can be achieved through
assimilation, elision, linking and neutralization.Consonant links you to a description of all the consonant sounds in English.
Vowel links you to a description of all the vowel sounds in English.
Stress and Intonation links you to a description of the role that stress and
intonation play in phonology.
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those names? The Harry Potter pronunciation guide could make your life
much easier!
Woo hoo, I'm done! Done? Not yet, pal.
What do you mean?
Have you tried the quizzes below?
QUIZ 1 QUIZ 2 QUIZ 3 QUIZ 4
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