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Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English Student's book [Student Edition] (Paperback)

by David Brazil (Author)

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Paperback: 159 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Student Manual/Study Guide edition (6 Oct 1994)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0521387981
ISBN-13: 978-0521387989
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.8 x 1 cm

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'Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English has taught me a lot. I recommend it.' EA Journal, Vol 13 No 2

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This book encourages learners to examine the sound system of English in the context of connected speech and describes how intonation works in practice.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A book for extremely advanced learners, 15 Sep 2003

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I am originally from France,i'm fluent in english but need to improve my pronunciation.I thought this book was too difficult to use as a self-study book.On top of that if you have never studied phonology before, it is impossible to understand all the sounds he refers to.I'd recommend this book only to someone who has studied phonology and phonemes before.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent treatment of a crucial but little understood aspect of English, 24 Jun 2008

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This book introduces the advanced student of English to the workings of intonation and prominence in the language. This is an area totally unknown until a few decades ago when Brazil and his colleagues began to analyse an enormous corpus and discover the mechanisms operative. Sadly, in the current world of Linguistics research, where quantity rather than quality or usefulness is what counts, it hasn't been developed as it should, and certainly not in the field of English Language Teaching.
The format of this book is simple but pedagogically effective and can be used for both self-study or in a classroom. Brazil starts each of the ten chapters with a listening text to which the student first listens for meaning. This is followed by a "Listening to Intonation" section in which the intonational aspects of the text are analysed in a clear step-by-step fashion which both elucidates underlying rules and encourages the student into active analysis and practice. A third section "Listening to Sounds" then looks at the behaviour of individual sounds in the text.
It is of course a book for "advanced learners" and presupposes that the learner will not have problems with the texts' syntactic, semantic, lexical or collocational dimensions and will thus have the attention units necessary to focus on intonation and prominence. But the learner who has achieved an advanced level of English and who wishes to function effectively in the language sooner or later has to assimmilate its intonational dimension. Generally, this is achieved by immersion in an English-speaking environment, where the student assimmilates this dimension unconsciously (although Brazil's book could accelerate the process). But for the advanced student who is not in this position, Brazil's course provides an alternative solution.
The course will of course be more effective with a teacher who has an understanding of the student's first language. Spanish speakers, for example, use a narrower tone range, and Japanese speakers, although they use more or less the same range of tone, do so in a different way. In my opinion, it can be usefully supplemented with an intelligent selection of other resources.
My only criticism is that there is no cd to accompany this book, only a tape.

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