ESL 41 Improving Pronunciation
This elective course is intended to help students express themselves well and with academic confidence. Upon completing this course, students are able to speak with better diction, better pronunciation, and better voice inflection in everyday verbal communication as well as in plays, presentations, and storytelling situations. Using several different approaches to storytelling, students learn effective techniques for verbally telling story jokes, retelling stories from noted authors, and effectively delivering lines in a stage performance. They learn how to assess their own and others’ performances and to offer helpful critiques and suggestions to improve performance through skill-based rubrics, written criticism, and reflective writing assignments. Prerequisites: ESL030, Oxford Online Placement Test score of 40-49, TOEFL iBT score of 35-54, or IELTS Band 4-5.
Prerequisite
(( ESL030 D- O ESL030 TC ) O