An Essential Guide for Listening and Pronunciation for Elt Students

With this textbook at hand, the author aims to provide an essential guide for the standardization of the content of Listening and Pronunciation courses whose syllabi are determined on individual basis by the instructors in charge in the English Language Teaching (ELT) Departments in Turkey. Listening and Pronunciation courses are taught as elective courses to improve and support pronunciation skills and listening comprehension of the pre service language teachers, which has been generally neglected in language teacher training. Therefore, this book is intended to serve as a practical guide for Listening and Pronunciation courses to be used at English Language Teaching (ELT) Departments. In general, the coursebook offers opportunities to develop listening comprehension and theoretical basis underlying as well as oral production skills in English. Therefore, it focuses on English language sounds, the nature of speech, and pronunciation skills of the students. It also responds to a need of pre-service ELT teachers to grasp the connection between Phonetics and Phonology and pronunciation skills as well as language teaching.