Phonology for listening comes in four parts.
The window on speech framework
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The Window on speech has five chapters, which give a comprehensive but easy-to-follow introduction to the rhythmic patterns of speech, and intonation. It is these patterns - speech units - which are used to present, analyse, and teach the sound substance of the stream of speech. |
Describing spontaneous speech
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Describing spontaneous speech has five chapters covering filled and silent pauses, ‘hesitations’ and re-starts, the many different soundshapes of weak forms and frequent words, and the many different soundshapes of content words. There is also an exploration of the rhythms of spontaneous speech.
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Accents, identity and emotion in speech
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Accents, identity and emotion in speech has five chapters.They cover the differences between British and American pronunciation, regional accents of the UK and the USA, accents of Global English, and how emotion is conveyed in speech. |
Teaching listening
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Teaching listening has five chapters. The first looks at issues in the teaching of listening; the second describes the mindset needed by teachers to deal with the realities of spontaneous speech; the third looks at using the teacher’s and students’ voices in low-tech listening exercises; the fourth, how listening comprehension exercises can be improved; the fifth looks at high-tech solutions. |
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Author - Richard Cauldwell
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Phonology for listening is written by Richard Cauldwell, who has two decades of experience in turning recordings of everyday speech into learning materials. His first publication Streaming Speech: Listening and Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English won a British Council ELTon prize in 2004. |
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