Phonetics 1

studia pierwszego stopnia

English Philology

semestr 1

niestacjonarne

języki obce
obowiązkowe

Realizowany w sali

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties:

total ECTS: 2

0,5 ECTS – 15 hours of classes

1,5 ECTS – 40 hours of self-study for reading transcription and transcribing, 5 hours of consultation

Course description:

The course gives the students introductory practice in English phonetics. It is compatible with practical classes raising students' proficiency level to C1.

Course objectives:

The main aim of the course is to improve pronunciation of vowels, diphthongs and consonants.

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Course content:

1. Introduction to speech sounds in standard BE and their IPA representations

2. Mechanisms and organs responsible for speech production.

3. Short and long vowels in BE

4. Diphthongs and triphthongs in BE

5. Consonants in BE

6. Consolidation: IPA practice (focus on words commonly mispronounced by Polish learners of English)

7. Individual pronunciation practice.

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Methods of instruction/forms of classroom activity:

individual and group work, practical language exercises, repeating recorded sounds, reading transcribed sounds, transcribing, working with computer programme „Say it right”, ICT tools/MSTeams if needed

Reading list

Roach, P. (2007). English phonetics and phonology. CUP. - or later editions

Sobkowiak, W. (1996). English phonetics for Poles. Bene Nati, Poznań. - or later editions.

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - SBE sound symbols (phonemic transcription) https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org

Supplementary reading

Selected Internet resources, e.g.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation

https://tophonetics.com/

Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019

Knowledge

Student knows:

1. the system of transcriptin (IPA) (k_W02/P6S_WG)

2. place and way of articulating the sounds in English (k_W05/P6S_WG)

Skills

Student can:

3. use the transcription system (IPA) (k_U05/P6S_UK)

4. correctly pronounce sounds in English (k_U05/P6S_UK)

Form of evaluation of learning outcomes:

1. Active participation in classes 20% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4)

2. Transcription test 40% of the final grade (outcome 1,3)

3. Pronunciation tasks 40% of the final grade (outcome 2,4)

pass at 60%