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 speec

Content

1. Being a successful student
2.  Learning online
3.  Changing roles in the family
4.  A healthy lifestyle
5.  The influence of the media
6.  Consolidation unit
7.  The world of work
8.  Protecting the environment
9.  Science and the paranormal
10.  Vowel sounds 1, word stress and weak forms
11.  Vowel sounds 2, word stress patterns
12.  Consonant sounds 1, sentence stress
13.  Consonant sounds 2, word stress on two-syllable words
14.  Diphthongs 1, sounds in connected speech
15.  Consonant clusters 1: tone units 1
16.  Diphthongs 2, tone units 2
17.  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