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Speaking Skills are Speech Skills - Pro ESL Accent Reduction and Pronunciation Training
 
1) Optimize company communication.
2) Improving pronunciation and accent provides ESL speakers with better communication skills.  
3) Be sure that everyone has the opportunity to develop professional communication skills to the fullest.
 
Improved English pronunciation provides ESL speakers with additional confidence and additional communication competency for professional purposes. This is good for business.
 
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> ESL accent reduction and English pronunciation - Improving speaking skills for ESL speakers
 
What is accent reduction and pronunciation? What do we work on when we learn and teach better English pronunciation? What do we focus on when teaching accent reduction? Here are the areas of concentration for pronunciation development and accent reduction.
 
  • Stress patterns of individual words - multi-syllable words - e.g. exterior, experiment
  • Intonation patterns - the contrast between content words and function words
  • Focus word - the most important or prominent word in an intonaton unit: a sentence, a clause, or a phrase
  • Falling intonation at the end of an information question - glide or step down at the end
  • Rising intonation at the end of a yes-no question
  • Types of stress: emphatic stress, contrastive stress, new information stress
  • Intonation stress patterns for lists and choices
  • Time-stress quality of English pronunciation  
  • Weak forms and strong forms of function words
  • Neutral vowel - schwa
  • Contractions used in both speaking and writing
  • Linking - connecting syllables and words
  • Producing stronger vowel sounds - lax and tense vowel sounds
  • Speaking faster - speeding up and slowing down
  • Thought groups - places where it's natural to pause
  • Types of stress: emphatic stress, contrastive stress, new information stress
  • Connected speech patterns - contractions used in spoken language - reductions, deletions, assimilation  
  • Minimal pairs - vowel sound distinction 
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