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English for Academic Study: Pronunciation English for academic study: Pronunciation is for students who need to communicate clearly and effectively in an academic environment in the medium of English. The aim of the course is to help students develop their pronunciation in English to a level that enables the listener to understand them with ease. The course provides students with structured patterns of English that will lead them step-by-step towards this goal. During the course, students will also learn the phonemic alphabet; this will remain a useful aid to accurate pronunciation throughout their studies. Care has been taken to ensure that the vocabulary focused on in this course is relevant to both academic study and the general needs of the student. The examples and exercises are based on words from the General Service List (GSL) and the Academic Word List (AWL). The 2009 edition of EAS Pronunciation has been fully revised for ease of use. As well as a new format, the Study Book also comes with a book map, unit summaries and a comprehensive glossary of terms. A dedicated website, www.englishforacademicstudy.com, offers further teacher resources. This book can be used in conjunction with the following books in the English for academic study series, also published by Garnet Education: EAS Reading, EAS Writing, EAS Extended Writing & Research Skills, EAS Listening, EAS Speaking and EAS Vocabulary. Key Features * Pronunciation of individual sounds * Syllables and word stress * Understanding word stress patterns * Sentence stress and speaker choice * Sounds in connected speech

A welcome and valuable addition to the materials available for helping pre-sessional students deal with their pronunciation issues in and out of the classroom --Deborah Stevenson, Brunel University

EAS is an EAP series (English for Academic Study) comprising seven separate course books covering the following areas: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Extended Writing & Research Skills, Pronunciation and Vocabulary. The books reflect the most recent developments in EAP and are based on practical experience of EAP practitioners in the classroom. Each book can be used as a stand-alone course or supported by others within the series, depending on the needs of the students. EAP is taught on all courses that prepare overseas students for study at universities in English speaking countries. Students hoping to study abroad will therefore get a head start by studying such material rather than general English. The EAS series is used on a high proportion of EAP courses in the UK and Australia (and the US version is now being used in North America). It has received widespread praise, and the in the words of a lecturer at a university in the UK: 'There is virtually nothing else that has come on the market in the last ten years that touches it.' The series has been designed for students on pre-sessional and foundation courses within an IELTS range of 5.0 to 7.0. However, they can be used for any group of students who need to improve their English academic skills within this range. The series is based on authentic reading or listening texts within the appropriate range of the students; these have been carefully selected to illustrate the skill area in focus. Free audio material is included where appropriate, featuring authentic transcripts of realistic length with a variety of accents. The Listening course also comes with a DVD. A website features a variety of teacher and student resources including interactive activities for Extended Writing & Research Skills --TESOL Spain Newsletter, Vol 34-2, 2010

Published as part of the bestselling EAS series, this book is aimed at a quite particular section of the ESL community: those undertaking university study with an IELTS level of between 5.0 and 7.0 or preparing for the Academic IELTS module. Consequently, the examples and exercises throughout incorporate the Academic Word List (AWL) as well as the usual General Service List (GSL): although, as the authors carefully point out in the introduction, not ALL of the 2,000 words in the GSL are included as they are 'not commonly or widely used in academic contexts'. For many students, and teachers, of academic English this will be a welcome change from the heavily illustrated, minimal pairs, conversational focus of more general pronunciation texts. However, its emphasis on phonemic transcription, and the absence of the familiar head diagrams, sliced vertically to show tongue positions, may challenge some and dismay others. The book is divided into eight units, each presenting segmental and suprasegmental features of English pronunciation via a variety of written, spoken and listening exercises, including excerpts from simulated academic lectures. Whilst the usual categories are included, such as weak forms, word and sentence stress, diphthongs, connected speech, consonant clusters and tone units, they are all demonstrated using academic examples. This integration of listening micro-skills with written and spoken forms focusing on essential vocabulary for the target users, aims to improve both productive and receptive skills in a totally relevant context and develop pronunciation to an easily understandable level, aims which it should achieve. Designed for use as a classroom or self-study resource, it could be provided to students with particular pronunciation difficulties for individual remedial work or integrated into existing courses, although a variety of subjects within each unit could prohibit its use in a topic based approach. Once again, the authors go to some pains to encourage the correct use of the book and CDs for maximum improvement and discourage the simple 'listen and remember' approach. The two main speakers on the CDs provide consistent, lightly accented British English, which was obviously the authors' aim, but I can't help feeling an opportunity was missed by not making use of a wider variety of speakers in the lecture sections to avoid the overall impression of monotony in the listening resources. The speakers also present the usual challenges for those attempting to acclimatise to New Zealand vowels and learning to discern acceptable variations in pronunciation from totally incorrect ones. The only other slight criticism I have is that the tracks on the CDs are not numbered with their references in the book exercises, making location of specific tracks a challenge without the written contents lists, which, in my experience, are frequently mislaid. Overall, this is a useful addition to the range of pronunciation resources and is particularly welcome for its academic focus --Jane Clark, Bridging Programmes, University of Canterbury for the TESOLANZ Newsletter, November 2007