Pronunciation Pairs Student's Book: An Introductory Course for Students of English

by Sharon Goldstein and Ann Baker

Book Overview

This new edition of a highly successful pronunciation text covers all of the speech sounds of North American English, as well as spelling, intonation, and stress. Pronunciation Pairs offers a variety... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521349729
• ISBN13: 9780521349727
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Raves

I teach highly motivated, well-educated adult students at a Language Center in New York. I use Pronunciation Pairs with the intermediate level adults. Almost every student has purchased this book for their personal library. It's instructions are clear, exercises in listening, discrimination and practice are excellent. The layout is user friendly and appropriate for adults.

A very usefull method for pronunciation pratice

This book is very useful for students who want to improve their fluency in American English. The usage of sounds in contrast is a powerful tool for those that have some difficult for distinguishing English sounds. The authors go depth on American pitch and intonation, driving the student towards the achievement of true American accent, just like a native has!

An excellent pronunciation guide for any level!

I discovered this book in the library, and have since used it to teach classes as well as individuals. Some of my students have even used this book as a self-teaching guide. It is an absolutely wonderful pronunciation guide for any level of ESL student! THE GOOD: The book employs a wonderful system for helping students learn the sounds of English. It has lists that differ by only one sound (ex. Sip & Zip) to illustrate the differences between similar sounds. It then tests the learners' hearing by having them choose which word they hear in a sentence where either word would fit! It goes on to provide practice with many words, sentences and dialogues. Then, after an activity, it summarizes all the ways that the sound can be spelled. THE BAD: There really isn't much! If anything, I would say that the mouth illustrations at the beginning of each chapter aren't really that helpful. And sometimes my students question me about the phonetic spelling that is used to introduce a sound. OVERALL: This is an absolutely wonderful book that can be used with anyone - from true beginners to advanced students! I would recommend it to anyone teaching or learning pronunciation. If you are going to use it to learn on your own I would recommend getting the cassette tapes.

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