CESL, Center for English as a Second Language

The Center for English as a Second Language at the University of Kentucky will teach two specialty classes to advanced non-native speakers of English in Summer 2008. If the times do not fit your schedules, please let us know. We will try to accommodate schedules, if possible. Other classes may be announced later in the summer.

The class will concentrate on both pronunciation and intonation, with the intention of making participants more comprehensible to their students, peers, clients, and co-workers. One session will be devoted to a diagnostic test to determine individual problem areas in pronunciation. Participants will be asked to make audio and video recordings to provide better feedback on each participant’s special needs. Students will also be encouraged to make presentations. Primary emphasis will be on suprasegmentals, intonation and timing. The class will use the last half of the text Sound Concepts. Participants will be required to buy a textbook. Please contact the teacher if the times do not work for you.

If participants have not taken Pronunciation Part I at the University of Kentucky, they will be asked to purchase the text Sound Concepts w/CDs and work through the first half of the text by themselves before entering the class. Some review of the main concepts will take place in the first class.

Please note: the class above is usually taught in 6 weeks, but the 4-week version will have exactly the same amount of time devoted to the class, but each class will be 50% longer.

This course is designed for advanced non-native speakers of English who have a good foundation in English grammar but would like to finally master two of its finer points: prepositions and articles.These are the points that plague otherwise proficient non-native speakers of English.This class will involve much repetition and memorization.It is not for the faint of heart or those wishing to have an enjoyable time speaking English.This is hard, but rewarding,work. A text may be required.

All classes are open to University of Kentucky faculty, graduate students, researchers, post docs and advanced English speakers in the Lexington community. In some cases, the departments are underwriting the cost of instruction; in other cases, the participants themselves are picking up the cost. Payment from departments or corporations can be made by IDIV or invoiced. Contact the Center for ESL at 257-7003 (Sally Fouts) or 257-6998 (Liga Abolins) or email esl@uky.edu. Also see www.uky.edu/esl.

Refund Policy:6-week classes: 100% before 2^nd class 50% before 3^rd class 0% after 3^rd class

4-week classes: 100% before 2^nd class 0% after 2^nd class

ESL – SPECIALTY CLASSES SUMMER 2008PRONUNCIATION II FOR NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS

ESL – SPECIALTY CLASSES SUMMER 2008
PRONUNCIATION II FOR NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS