Improve Your Pronunciation Beginner Focus B

Course code ELSK 0347

Credit 0.0

Length 40.0 hours

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Improve Your Pronunciation Beginner Focus B helps the student to become a good language learner and teaches ways to improve pronunciation, fluency, delivery and listening skills. The student will make an oral journal; give oral presentations; learn about sound study and practice real speech forms and features such as consonants and vowels in English; contrasted with the learner language. Course delivery involves language and content appropriate to CLB levels 3 and 4.

Prerequisites

CLB 2 Listening, CLB 2 Speaking.

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What you will learn

  • 1. Consonants with long and short vowels
    2. Variable sounds of some consonants
    3. Relationship of sound and spelling
    4. Syllables
    5. Word Stress
    6. Sentence Stress, stress and key words
    7. Thought groups and intonation
    8. Linking

How to register

Please contact the School of Instructor Education at 604.871.7488 or 604.871.7499 or by email at advising@vcc.ca to apply.
For more information, please see the PIDP Program Content Guide.

Course schedules

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Contact us

If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.

Indigenous Territory Acknowledgment

VCC is located on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, and we acknowledge our privilege to be here.