SP 010. ESL Pronunciation of English Fundamentals

Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): A score at a pre-determined level on a placement instrument.

This course will enable the student to produce consonants and vowels as individual entities and as connected phonemes at an introductory level while developing auditory discrimination-skills of target sounds. The student will be able to build a fundamental knowledge of the speech mechanism; place, manner, and voicing characteristics of consonants; and tongue elevation and position of vowels as well as the International Phonetic Alphabet.