1. Phonetics and Phonology - for teachers of english course length : 20 hours
Course program:
• Introduction – pronunciation : a motor skill - tpr (total physical response)
• Common brazilian mispronunciations
• Monophtongs and diphtongs
• The consonants and their classification ; regions of articulation (anatomy of the vocal tract)
• Phonetic transcription – the neutralization factor (the minimum effort law)
• The sound h
• “S” endings sounds (plural / 3rd person / possessive / is)
• “ed” regular past tense sounds
• Rhythm
• Intonation
• Stress (which words should be stressed?)
• Compound nouns x modifier + noun : how can we tell the difference?
• Real fluency: (blendings – obscurations – thought groups)
• Conclusion: pronunciation: points to ponder – contrastive analysis
