ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

DESCRIPTION OF ASSESSMENT AND GUIDELINE

No. Descriptions & Requirements Assessment Criteria

At week 1, students set groups of 3-4 and choose one chapter in the course book to - Preparation: slides, research,
Oral Presentation
Assignment 1 (5%)

prepare a 30-minute class discussion/presentation for. Take turns to present it on etc. (30%)
week 2-12 of the course (on schedule) - Content: (50%)
Students can present a part of the chosen chapter or something they find - Performance: (20%)
interesting from or about it.
The presentation content including reference sources needs to be submitted 2 days
in advance for feedback.

At week 1, students receive some short reading texts with correlated audio files. Each Pronunciation (60)
Recordings of improvement
Assignment 2 (15%)

of the texts is divided into 2 parts marked with different colors. Students are required - Production of speech sounds
to record their reading out loud one of the two parts and send the recording to their (phonemes, clusters, ending
instructor one day before the second class. Each student meets individually with their sounds, etc.) (15%)
instructors at week 8-12 for comments on their first recording. - Stress, strong/weak forms (5%)
- Connected speech (linking,
At week 13, students: rhythm, etc.) (10%)
1. Do their voice-recording once again with THE SAME piece of reading - Intonation (10%)
2. Write a reflection of about 300 - 400 words in which they compare their first and - Improvement (20%)
second recording, identify any mispronunciations they made and how they have Reflection (40)
improved them, and give comments and/or suggestions on how the course has - Identifying mispronunciations
been and/or should be conducted. (15%)
The paper has to be typed and comply with the following requirements: - Analysis on pronunciation
- Font: Tahoma; font size: 12pt improvements (20%)
- Line spacing: 1.5 o What have been
- Margins: L/R; T/B: 2.5 cms improved
3. Submit the reflection paper in both hard and soft copy (through TURNITIN) along o What need improving
with the second recording one day before the class of the 13th week of the - Comments and/or suggestions
course. on the course (5%)
 A 45-minute-test including objective questions related the teaching topics in the
Mini-test (10%)
& Midterm Test (30%)
course book is conducted at week 5 of the course.

The midterm test which lasts for 60 minutes and consists objective questions (multiple
choice, True-False questions, Matching) and transcribing questions is conducted at
week 8 of the course.

The final test consists of 2 components: - Production of speech sounds

Final Test (40%)

1. Individual oral test: (10%) (phonemes, clusters, ending

The test is conducted in class at week 14. Each student draws a topic and has 5 sounds, etc.) (25%)
minutes to prepare for a 2-to-3-minute talk about the topic. - Stress, strong/weak form (10%)
2. Voice-over/Role-play: (30%) - Connected speech (linking,
At week 10, students decide on one of the following forms then inform their instructor rhythm, etc.) (20%)
about their decision: - Intonation (20%)
Doing voice-over for a piece of news (individually) or a movie extract (in pairs - Fluency (20%)
or groups of three) - Timing (5%)
- Reference websites: News reports
https://www.youtube.com/user/VOALearningEnglish or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGCCfbOPV60&feature=endscreen
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cnn+student+news
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+london+news
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+news+subtitles+english

Acting out an extract from a play (in pair or group of three)

- Reference website: Play scripts
http://freedraSma.net
https://www.youtube.com/user/bbclearningenglish or
https://www.youtube.com/user/bbclearningenglish/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=
58&sort=dd)
Students perform their roll-playing or voice-over in class at week 15. Each students
performance will be somewhere between 150 240 seconds in length.
 At week 1, students receive a file of Pronunciation Exercises. They keep practicing on their pronunciation with the exercises
Pronunciation Practice in the file starting week 2. Each of them meets individually with their instructor at week 3 - 7 for comments and instructions
on their pronunciation.
- Reference websites:
o American English practice
- https://www.youtube.com/user/VOALearningEnglish
- http://www.fonetiks.org/shiporsheep/
- http://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/english/english.html (articulation with illustration)
- https://www.youtube.com/user/VOALearningEnglish or
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGCCfbOPV60&feature=endscreen
- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cnn+student+news
o British English practice
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD6B222E02447DC07
- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+london+news
- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+news+subtitles+english
o Minimal pairs (by Dr Caroline Bowen - an Australian Speech-Language Pathologist)
- http://www.speech-language-
therapy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13:contrasts&catid=9:resources&Itemid=117
- or http://www.speech-language-
therapy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134:mp2&catid=9:resources&Itemid=108

1. When submitting your assignments to your instructor, make sure that your email has content. Do not just send attachments in an empty
email. Make sure that you name your email subject and your attached file after the following syntax OR IT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
The subject of your email: Phonetics & Phonology [class time]
The attached file: First Name Last&Middle name Assignment [No. of assignment] [name of the assignment]

Example: Student Nguyn Th Bch Mai with student ID 102057 who takes the class in Thurday morning and wants to submit her
assignment 2 with 1st recording of All about eyes is expected to:

- Fill the subject of her email with: Phonetics & Phonology Thursday morning
- Name her attached file as: Mai Nguyen Thi Bach Assignment 2 All about eyes (1st)

The recording must be sent from your HSU student account

2. Failure to commit to assignment requirements and deadlines will result in a penalty to your score. One point (of ten point grade scale) will be
subtracted from your correlative assignment score for each day of late submission.
3. If you have any queries concerning the assignment, asking me in class time or giving me a call at 0908.123.647 is preferable to an email.