Info Kursus

This course provides the students with practical skills and theoretical bases in pronouncing English words, phrases, and sentences in dialogues and passages. It consists of an 80% practical component and a 20% theoretical one. The practical component focuses on students’ practice of pronouncing individual words, phrases, and sentences in dialogues and passages, with the lecturer giving the model pronunciation and providing supervision and feedback. The production of sounds is emphasized when pronouncing words, stress patterns when pronouncing phrases, and intonations when pronouncing sentences. The theoretical component deals with basic concepts of the English sound system and how the sounds are transcribed phonetically. Students have a lot of practices in transcribing words, phrases, and sentences in either dialogues or passages. Students are required to do the following: (a) attend the class (>75%), (b) do assignments, (c) take the mid semester test, and (d) take the final semester test.