English for Academic Study: Speaking & Pronunciation

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