The world's best selling accent and pronunciation book. This book starts at the most basic level -- the syllable -- and builds up to the complex intonation that is used in everyday English. This book will guide you to fluency in spoken American English
【作者简介】
Ann Cook is the author of the best-selling American Accent Training text, published by Barron's in 1991, 2000 and 2012. (Also published in China, Japan, Korea and India.) Her speciality is tailoring and expanding materials for specific situations, as in her three books for parents of elementary-age students, How Well Does Your Child Read? How Well Does Your Child Write? How Well Does Your Child Do Math? Cook studied Spanish Literature at the California State University at Los Angeles, spent a year at the Institut d'Études Françaises in Aix-en-Provence, a month studying Spanish with the Peace Corps language program in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, and five years in Japan at the Japanese Culture and Language Institute in Tokyo. In addition to her regular teacher training, Cook has trained a dozen Americans to teach in Korea, and hundreds of Korean high school students who came to the US for her program. Her company, American Accent Training, Inc., has provided training for numerous heads of corporations, post-graduate students, engineers and IT personnel. American Accent Training is used around the world at public and private schools, universities and corporate training programs. Cook also developed an online learning program for the American accent and culture for blended learning in the overseas call center market, including assessments, industry-specific modules, sales modules, and general cultural information, delivered via a Moodle platform. American Accent Training, Inc., founded in 1986 and incorporated in 1997, is a virtual language training company with instructors across the United States. All AAT instructors have a masters degree or PhD and are intensively trained in-house, specifically for second accent acquisition.
【目录】
Introduction: Read This First Preliminary Diagnostic Analysis Chapter 1 The American Sound Voice Quality Intonation and Attitude Chapter 2 Psycholinguistics Chapter 3 General Pronunciation Chapter 4 American Intonation Chapter 5 Syllable Stress Chapter 6 Complex Intonation Two-word Phrases Chapter 7 Phrasing Chapter 8 The Miracle Technique Chapter 9 Grammar in a Nutshell Chapter 10 Reduced Sounds Chapter 11 Word Connections Chapter 12 Cat? Caught? Cut? Chapter 13 Tee Aitch Chapter 14 The American T Chapter 15 The American R Chapter 16 The El Chapter 17 S or Z? Mid-point Diagnostic Analysis Chapters 1-17 Review and Expansion Chapter 18 More Reduced Sounds Chapter 19 “V” as in Victory Chapter 20 Tense and Lax Vowels Chapter 21 The Ridge Chapter 22 Grammar in a Bigger Nutshell Chapter 23 Practical Application Chapter 24 Nasal Consonants Chapter 25 Throaty Consonants Final Diagnostic Analysis Nationality Guides Answer Key Teacher's Guide Index
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