American Accent Training: With Downloadable Audio, 4th Edition (American Accent Traning)
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (727 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1438010354 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent practical teaching and learning resource - a comprehensive program that's innovative and fun Amazon Customer I'm a retired professor now teaching accent training and English as a second language. I have been using Ann Cook’s highly innovative and exercise-packed 3rd Edition for the past two years. This new 4th edition incorporates a wider range of Ann’s comprehensive practical exercises into the earlier chapters than in previous editions as well as some excellent contextual explanations later in her Review and Expansion section midway through the book. S
More valuable features include access to a comprehensive website, and referral to a qualified telephone analyst for an individual diagnostic speech analysis.. The program goes where no American accent training tool has gone before, providing highly innovative instruction for both students and business people.The structure of the book has been reorganized, offering students a much more clear and direct sequence of lessons and a path to better understandingThe downloadable audio component features professional male and female voices that have been carefully selected to represent authentic American pronunciation and intonationPronunciation exercises encompass all vowel sounds, consonants, blends, and diphthongsEmphasis on l