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This is the second course aimed at developing the speaking and listening skills of students who plan to take language programs. The course continues to provide students with extensive speaking and listening practices with a view to applying these to a range of both academic and real-world situations. Building on the learning fostered in ENL1001, students will now acquire professional note-taking skills, allowing them to engage more effectively with extended speeches and university lectures. Students will also present, in groups, an in-depth Speech Analysis in which they will explore modes of persuasion and fallacies in communication. Finally, students will practice preparing, researching, and delivering their own public speeches, as well as learn how to respond to impromptu public speaking scenarios.
The book is a concise, to-the-point compendium of information about the casual pronunciation of everyday English as compared to formal citation forms. It examines changes that occur to certain sounds and in certain parts of words and syllables in the casual, unmonitored speech of native English speakers. It outlines major phonological processes found in conversational English, reviews and criticizes attempts to include these processes in phonological theory, and surveys experimental approaches to explaining casual English pronunciation. Among the varieties of English covered are General American and Standard Southern British, but many other accents are mentioned, especially those of mainland Britain.
