American accent training : a guide to speaking and pronouncing colloquial American English
by Cook, Ann, 1954- (Author)
Summary
"A great training tool for classroom or for personal use! In recent years, Barron's American Accent Training has gained wide respect as a self-teaching program, but more and more speech trainers, teachers, and speech therapists report that they are also using it as a valuable teaching tool in their... Full description
- Introduction : read this first
- Telephone tutoring: Preliminary diagnostic analysis
- The American sound
- Pure sound
- Voice quality
- The American speech music
- Four main reasons for intonation
- Can or can't
- Intonation and attitude
- Squeezed-out syllables
- Syllable stress
- Complex intonation
- Phrasal verbs
- Word linking & phrasing
- Word groups and phrasing
- Cat? Caught? Cut?
- The miracle technique
- The American T
- The American R
- The El
- Reduced sounds
- Grammar in a nutshell
- Tee aitch
- S or Z?
- Telephone tutoring: mid-point diagnostic analysis
- Review and expansion
- More reduced sounds
- "V" as in victory
- Tense and lax vowels
- The ridge
- The verb map
- Grammar in a bigger nutshell
- Practical application
- Nasal consonants
- Throaty consonants
- Telephone tutoring: final diagnostic analysis
- Review and expansion
- Nationality guides
- Answer key
- ESL teacher's guide
- Index.