Improving Spoken English: An Intensive Personalized Program in Perception, Pronunciation, Practice in Context

By Joan Morley

Book Overview

Presents sets of listening/speaking lessons to help high school and adult students with fluency and accuracy in English

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047208660X
• ISBN13: 9780472086603
• Release Date: August 1979
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.2"
• Grade Range: Grades 10 to 12

Customer Reviews

I have used this book for over two years helping others improve their English

I have been using Improving Spoken English for over 2 years. I teach accent reduction classes as well as individual sessions. I use this book as a foundation. There are two units. The SECOND unit deals with the 15 VOWELS sounds. Most people think of the 'sounds' as what they need to learn to be able to speak English so Americans can understand them better. But, really, even if you use the right 'sounds', but you speak some words too quickly, others will understand you as saying another word. For example, if you say "each" too quickly it will sound basically like "itch". "Green" will sound like "grin", "paper" will sound like "pepper" and "Luke" will sound like "look". The best part of the book is the 'key word system' to learn the vowels. "See It, Say Yes, Fat bird, Bus stop, Two books, No Law, and My Cow boy...