因為剛開學的TA英文考試沒過,上了一學期的發音課。整體下來雖然覺得對擔任TA沒有什麼幫助,不過至少學了一些「練習正確發音」的方法,實際成效就......。總歸一句,模仿和練習還是最重要的,邊看電視邊跟著講我覺得很有用,但是常常講一講就專心於劇情,嘴巴忘了動。我自己的發音問題還是在STRESS AND RHYTHM,也就是講話的抑揚頓挫:念一段課文時,腔調能假假地騙人,雖常頓在不該停的地方(PREPOSITION前),但如果是自主意識講話時就完全回復平平的腔調了,尤其是MICROTEACHING時,一邊思考要講什麼一邊還要注意腔調跟本就不可能嘛。跟電視劇時,思考跟不上聽見的,舌頭跟不上思考,要走的路還長得很。
以下是課程網頁的一些有用資源,趁還能登入的時候COPY下來給需要的人。
Pronunciation Power
http://www.englishlearning.com/choose.htmlFree Pronunciation Software
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/This downloadable computer program enables you to analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech and pronunciation with visual diagrams representing pitch, rhythm, volume, intonation contours, etc.
Online Dictionary with Transcriptions
http://dictionary.reference.com/provides sound files as well
An English Pronouncing Dictionary
http://www.howjsay.com/with instant sound
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary
http://www.merriam-webster.com/This dictionary website is free to use, and includes audio clips of everyword in the dictionary. The speakers have United States accents.
Learning English Pronunciation
http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc.htmEnglish Club English Pronunciation
http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/index.htmSounds of English
http://www.soundsofenglish.org/index.htmlAmerican English Pronunciation Practice
http://www.manythings.org/pp/This site provides a series of audio recordings of minimal pair words,followed by quizzes for listening recognition.
Pronunciation Practice Site: Okanagan University
http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/An instructional site that offers free, interactive activities andinstruction on pronunciation of specific sounds, both vowels and consonants,in the English language.
Phonetics Flash Animation
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English.Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, astep-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context.
English Pronunciation Work Page
http://www.e-pron.com/Plenty of links to sound files of native speakers, with examples of thepronunciation dynamics we've been studying in class.
Prosody on the Web
http://www.eptotd.btinternet.co.uk/pow/powin.htmAn interactive tutorial site provides both pronunciation and listeninginstruction in three aspects of phrase-level pronunciation: chunking, focusand pitch. British English.
Undergraduate Student Questions Practice
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/studentquestionspractice/homeThis site provides very short video clips of the questions that undergraduatestudents commonly ask before & after class and in office hours. TAs canlisten to questions, practice answering, and check transcripts for listeningaccuracy.
Listening Practice
http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/index.php?page=tv-commercialsA series of classic advertisements demonstrating stress, intonation, andrhythm.
***[Recommend!] Classic Speeches
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htmGreat speeches for better speaking. This site, American Rhetoric, hasspeeches from famous orators (both men and women). Speeches include texttranscripts, and many speeches are available in MP3 format as well. Find aspeaker and speech you like, then use that speech for mirroring practice(speak alongs).
Digital Metronome
http://www.nch.com.au/metronome/index.htmlAt this web site, you can download a digital metronome to use in rhythmpractice.
Free Audio Editor and Recording Software
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/This link takes you to the Audacity web site, where you can download thisopen-source (free) audio editor and recording software. Audacity is a verynice package, with which you can convert formats and mix files. So you candownload an MP3 formatted speech from American Rhetoric, edit it withAudacity, then upload the result to your MP3 player (or IPOD). Great formirroring work.