This course is designed to help students improve their pronunciation. It offers intensive practice in the pronunciation and recognition of patterns of English stress, rhythm, and intonation. Students will further enhance intelligible speech in English through receiving intensive practical training in the phonology of English including common contractions, reductions, weak forms, deletions, assimilation, and the effects of specific phonetic environments. Students will also focus on refining English pronunciation skills with an emphasis on eliminating production errors in spontaneous spoken English.