Garnet Education English for Academic Study - Pronunciation Study Book + CDs

"This self-study course, which enables students to approach listening via pronunciation, is a valuable aid to differentiation in EAP classes. It has proved very popular!" Amanda Smith, INTO Manchester "It is the only coursebook currently published that attempts to deal with this important area of English. Garnet Education are to be congratulated, then, for taking on the challenge of pronunciation for EAP (and for stealing a march on the other publishers)." Robin Walker for Speak Out! (newsletter of the IATEFL Pronunciation SIG), February 2013 "The EAS Pronunciation Study Book is well-structured, introducing the phonetic alphabet and teaching students how to pronounce all the 44 phonemic symbols of Received Pronunciation (RP). Students can then read the phonemic transcription of words in the dictionary and pronounce new words correctly. Each chapter focuses on different problem areas, such as vowels (useful to French and Italian speakers), word stress, consonants, consonant clusters, and voiced/unvoiced consonants (useful to Swiss-German speakers). Diagrams are provided showing the position of the tongue in relation to the teeth, lips, and roof of the mouth for consonants. I would recommend this course to individual students needing to improve their pronunciation. My only reservation about it is that it is not stated clearly that the course is teaching RP. Many of us would have to change our accents in order to model all the vowels and diphthongs as they are transcribed. Fortunately, there is no need for this, as the self-study book and two CDs allow students to work on it alone." Margaret Oertig for ETAS Journal, Vol. 30, No 3, Summer 2013