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
Select your program to see the available course schedules.
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.