Practical Word Power: Dictionary-Based Skills in Pronunciation and Vocabulary Development

by Richard Cavalier

Overview

When we consider the benefits of clear speech to the student and to his or her associates on the job, in the community, in stores and offices which are a part of everyone's daily routine, then we understand why, if the potential of any individual is lost because of a language barrier, we are all losers. This book can help create the skills that enable all of us to win!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798888621271
Publisher:	Spine Media Creatives
Publication date:	05/29/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	38 MB
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About the Author

Richard Cavalier is a consultant in group communications-meetings, training, and audiovisual presentations. He has published numerous articles in the trade press on the importance of identifying and protecting the message in business communications; and methodology from his two books on meeting management has been adopted as a standard by Meeting Planners International, the largest professional organization in that field.He has traveled in more than forty countries-usually language handicapped-including over a year's stay in the Orient on military duty. Having studied academic German, Berlitz Spanish, and tutored French, and having memorized survival phrases in the Japanese and Korean languages (mutilating all without favoritism), Cavalier has learned what works and why in practical approaches to any foreign language.His hometown in northern Minnesota was a turn-of-the-century center for immigrant labor. Because his grandparents' generation was predominently foreign-born, broken English was their norm. Standard American-English pronunciation was taught to young people in school, but the oldsters (apart from the rudiments of citizenship classes) were left to pick up English as best they could. Some did well-especially those who could learn from their children; others were locked out of main-stream activities permanently.Cavalier has grown up witnessing the frustration, embarrassment, social strictures, and waste of human potentials derived from significant language handicaps. This book, based on years of his volunteer classroom tutoring, is his attempt to help people who want to help themselves.

Table of Contents

	Editor's Introduction
	Author's Forward
	Preface
	About this book
	How to use this book
	Additional resources
	Selecting prospective students
	Prerequisites
	A word about perfection
	What this workbook and system can do
	What this workbook and system cannot do
	Choosing the dictionary textbook
	Grading performance
	Getting personal
	Finding courage
Session 11
	Introduction
	Understanding problem sources
	Demonstration for non-native students
	Pronunciation keys explained
	Vowel and schwa sounds
	Letter "R"
	Diphthongs and ligatures
	Consonants and consonant ligatures
	Voiced sibilant pair
	Voiced labio-dental pairs
	Voiced explosive pairs
	Family of "S" sounds
	"TH" pair
	"NG" ligature
	Tricky letters and sounds
	Disappearing letters
	"H" and "WH" combinations
	Optional remedial exercise
	Future assignment
Session 277
	Tutor's Basic Drill Chart (review)
	Textbook familiarization
	Practical application
	Correction of sounds (see Appendix A)
	Forming plurals (optional)
	Multiple entries
	Future assignment
Session 3105
	Tutor's Basic Drill Chart (review)
	Vocabulary Drill Chart
	Dictionary Key
	Eliminating accents
	Dictionary Syllabification
	Making "telephone" calls
	Making reservations
	Public transportation (optional)
	Future assignment
Session 4143
	Pronunciation keys (review)
	Vocabulary Drill Chart (review)
	Name-test for comprehension
	Advertising "telephone" exercise
	Future assignment
Session 5161
	Pronunciation keys (review)
	Vocabulary Drill Chart (review)
	Using Dictionary page "ears"
	Newspaper article exercise
	Problem review and correction
	Phrasing-for-sense
	Key Prepositions Chart
	Key prepositions exercise
	Newspaper article exercise, augmented
	Future assignment
	Vocational/job-related Vocabulary Insert (Optional)	192
	Initial Sequence outline
	Follow-up Sequence outline
Session 6195
	Dictionary key (review)
	Newspaper article exercise
	(Optional break point for vocational insert)
	Denotations and connotations
	Detecting reporter bias
	Oral reading exercise
	Understanding newspaper headlines
	Future assignment
Session 7217
	Reading test preparation
	Oral readings (for interpretation)
	Discussion on interpretations
	Further exercise on interpretation
	Future assignment
Session 8225
	Oral reading exercise
	Dictionary keys (review)
	Final test
	Appendix A	232
	Bibliography	233
	Appendix B	241
	Appendix C	248
	Topical Index	249