The Well Said series is designed to improve the pronunciation and communication skills of beginner to advanced students from all language backgrounds. It offers a clear course plan covering the essential areas of pronunciation, including stress, rhythm, and intonation--features that research shows help students the most. Additionally, there are over fifty pages of supplemental activities focusing on consonant and vowel sounds. The Intro level of Well Said is a slower-paced course that introduces the most important pronunciation features at the beginning to low-intermediate level. A free Website for teachers and students includes the full audio program.
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| To the Instructor |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| To the Student |
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Part I Introduction to Pronunciation |
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Chapter 1 Your Pronunciation Needs and Goals |
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Chapter 3 Vowel and Consonant Sounds |
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Chapter 4 Final Consonant Sounds |
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Chapter 7 Stress in Numbers, Nouns, and Verbs |
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Chapter 8 Stress in Words with Suffixes |
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Part IV Sentences: Rhythm and Connected Speech |
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Chapter 9 Rhythm: Stressed Words |
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Chapter 10 Rhythm: Reduced Words |
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Chapter 11 Connected Speech |
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Part V Discourse: Focus, Intonation, and Thought Groups |
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Chapter 13 Final Intonation |
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Chapter 14 Thought Groups |
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Part VI Vowel and Consonant Sounds |
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2 Vowel Sounds and Spelling |
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3 What vowel sounds should you study? |
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128 | (4) |
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9 Consonant Sounds and Spelling |
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10 What consonant sounds should you study? |
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11 Initial /p/ pie- /b/ buy; /t/ time- /d/ dime; /k/ cold- /g/ gold |
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12 /m/ some - /n/ sun - /η/ sung |
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13 /θ/ thing - /s/ sing; /θ/ thank - /t/ tank |
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14 /∫/ sheep - /t∫/ cheap - /d3/ jeep |
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Appendix A Personal Key Word List |
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Appendix B Suffixes and Word Stress |
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Linda has pursued her interest in first and second language pronunciation for over forty years. She has taught ESL students at Georgia Tech, international teaching assistants at Emory University, and graduate students in applied linguistics at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her special interests are applying pronunciation research to practice and integrating pronunciation into the oral communication curriculum. She is the author of two pronunciation texts, Well Said and Well Said Intro (National Geographic Cengage) and the editor of the teacher resource volume Pronunciation Myths (University of Michigan Press). Eve Einselen Yu has been in the field of English Language Teaching and Linguistics for twenty years. She fell in love with the field as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Slovak Republic. Since then, she has taught students of all levels and ages in Hiroshima, Japan; Semarang, Indonesia; and New York City. She has also taught future teachers of English at Hunter College and in Central Java. Eve has developed or written both print and digital ELT content for over eight years.
