Course Description
This course provides students and employees from diverse backgrounds and levels with the opportunity to minimize foreign accent in their English speech and sound more natural when speaking the English language. The course provides comprehensive guidelines on uttering the 44 basic sounds (phonemes) of standard British English along many exercises on recognizing syllables, word stress, and sentence intonation. The audio material accompanying our Training Kit exposes the learner to other varieties of accents as well allowing room for making accent choices.
Course Objectives
- Developing awareness of the diversity of English accents.
- Drawing distinction between accent and dialect.
- Learning the phonetic key through the phonemic chart.
- Developing a muscular memory during drilling sounds and short utterances.
- Understanding the role of word stress and phrase / sentence intonation in understanding the language and conveying messages.
- Understanding context and choosing the proper tone accordingly.
- Demonstrating the connection between grammar and proper elocution.
- Distinguishing between different styles of speech.
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Teaching Philosophy:
The teaching method combines between learning by doing and the Task-Based Learning (TBL) approaches. Learners are going to engaged in many classroom activities based on the exercises provided in the book for the purpose of developing clear elocution. Class discussions aim at raising the learner’s awareness of the diversity of English sounds and the difference between accent and dialect. Learners shall be mostly exposed to received-pronunciation (RP) variety understanding which would help them better understand other accents; hence making a choice of their accent to emulate. One of the course aims is to deconstruct the popular myth about English accents often circulated in the Near East and Middle East that it is either British or American.
North Star Management Consultancy delivers the Voice and Accent Course over 16 sessions of 2.5 hours each (A total of 40 Hours).
Course Plan
- 1 – 2: Voice, Dialect and Accent: an overview (2 hrs)
- 3 – 6: Phonemic Chart of the RP (4 hrs)
- 7 – 15: (Section A) Sounds and spelling + corresponding exercises (2-27) (9 hrs)
- Vowel sounds (2-10) (5 hrs)
- Consonant sounds (11-27) (4 hrs)
- 16– 20: (Section B) Syllables and Words+ corresponding exercises (28-32) (5 hrs)
- 21 – 30: (Section C) Phrases, Sentences and Grammar + corresponding exercises (33-43) (10 hrs)
- 31– 40: (Section D) Conversation and Reading + corresponding exercises (10 hrs)
Distribution of Marks:
| Attendance | 16 Degrees |
| Class Participation | 50 Degrees |
| Exercises | 34 Degrees |
| Total | 100 Degrees |
Remarks:
- No more than 12 Participants are allowed in the same Class.
- Participation Grades are based on attention and contribution to class discussions.
- Absences from class will negatively affect your grade, since being absent for more than 3 sessions out of the 16 Sessions that compose the course will disqualify you from obtaining Attendance Certificate.
- Passing percentage for the … is 70%, and the first in the group will receive another Certificate of High Achievement in addition to the Attendance Certificate.
Course Fees: K.D 160
