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English Phonetics Course Unit 1 Introduction 1.1 Course Description 1. Course Description Course description It is generally acknowledged that a good pronunciation has never failed to invite compliments, admiration and acknowledgement. 1. Course Description Course description To be a successful language learner, it is essential to have a better understanding of how the speech sounds of English are produced. Such knowledge will enable us to understand why we have a ‘Chinese accent’when speaking English, since the Chinese accent results partially from an inability to produce the speech sounds of English. 1. Course Description Course objectives contents This course is intended to help the Chinese EFL learners to improve English pronunciation and intonation so that they will be able to communicate more effectively. The course includes such elements as vowel and consonant phonemes; word stress and sentence stress;  features of connected speech: rhythm, liaison, assimilation, elision;  English intonation: its form, function and application. 1. Course Description Course requirements read course-book before and after class; understand and summarize the key points of each section after reading;  listen to the assigned tapes, imitate attentively and do weekly recordings; be able to do some phonetic transcription and get to know how connected speech works. 1. Course Description Assessment Oral Exam (60%) weekly recording + post-test Written Exam (40%)  basic phonetics knowledge, concepts and definitions;  description of each phoneme;  identification of sentence stress and nucleus placement;  features of connected speech;  intonation c