English for Academic Study: Speaking & Pronunciation

English for Academic Study: Speaking & Pronunciation

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Authors: Joan McCormack, Sebastian Watkins, Jonathan Smith, Annette Margolis
Publisher: Garnet Education
Upper Intermediate
Suitable for classroom use

The best-selling English for Academic Study (EAS) series provides students with a clear and efficient path to academic competency and success. Students are no longer simply working through college-level materials; they are consciously developing skills and strategies that can transfer out of the EAP classroom into their future studies, becoming capable and autonomous learners.

English for Academic Study: Speaking & Pronunciation: takes a Task-Based Approach to refining presentation and seminar participation skills by finding a focus, organizing ideas and developing functional language and competency.

Key Features:

    • “Useful language” section supports discussions and presentations

 

    • Regular review units and learner diary sections to consolidate work

 

    • FREE audio CDs for further self-study or homework

 

    • Useful 20-page appendix

 

    • Pronunciation of individual sounds

 

    • Syllables and word stress

 

    • Understanding word stress patterns

 

    • Sentence stress and speaker choice

 

    • Sounds in connected speech

 

Content

    • Being a successful student

 

    • Learning online

 

    • Changing roles in the family

 

    • A healthy lifestyle

 

    • The influence of the media

 

    • Consolidation unit

 

    • The world of work

 

    • Protecting the environment

 

    • Science and the paranormal

 

    • Vowel sounds 1, word stress and weak forms

 

    • Vowel sounds 2, word stress patterns

 

    • Consonant sounds 1, sentence stress

 

    • Consonant sounds 2, word stress on two-syllable words

 

    • Diphthongs 1, sounds in connected speech

 

    • Consonant clusters 1: tone units 1

 

    • Diphthongs 2, tone units 2

 

    • Consonant clusters 2, intonation

 

Reviews

“Excellent, very complete, very thorough and well-structured. The topics feel relevant and not overly dense. The methodology also feels up-to-date and cutting-edge.”
– iT’s Magazines, Autumn 2007

“An attractive, well-planned, flexible and very useable course book.”
– Amanda Ilic, Loughborough University: English Language Study Unit

“A welcome change from more general pronunciation texts.”
– Jane Clark, University of Canterbury

“A useful addition to the range of pronunciation resources and is particularly welcome for its academic focus.”
– TE

 

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