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Course title |
Mastering English Stress Patterns
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Duration |
2 Days: 1 hour each
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Description |
Applying stress rules enhances pronunciation clarity, aids vocabulary acquisition and improves communication skills. Therefore, in this course (1) participants will be able to define linguistic stress and distinguish between stressed and unstressed syllables (2) They will practice identifying the stressed syllable in minimal word pairs and multisyllabic vocabulary.
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Name |
Dr. Shaimaa Helal shaimaaarts@yahoo.com
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Day 1:
1- Introduction
2. Stress
2.1. Word stress
Aims:
1- introduce you to prosody,
2- define and exemplify stress in words
What is word stress, and could you provide some examples?
Mastering English Stress Patterns- Day 2.
1- Introduction
2. Stress in connected utterances
Aims:
define and exemplify stress in connected utterances
Which words do we stress in a sentence?