Instructor Notes Many people have issues with vocal expressiveness in formal situations. People may start to mumble or become monotone, for example, or their rate of speech may be too fast or too slow. The Digital Poem seeks to help students address these issues. Students will need clear, expressive voices to successfully complete the project. […]

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Rationale I started my work in OER with a Linguistics of Spoken English website, then moved on to other projects. I have been looking for other ways to encourage oral communication based pedagogy since, mostly because Academia doesn’t actually do much with the spoken word. Further, when most instructors create oral communication projects, those projects […]

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Exercises for Pronunciation of /f/ and /v/ Exercises for Pronunciation of /f/ and /v/ Practice words with /f/ in the initial, medial and final position free food before hopeful beef Joseph fear fall breakfast headphone belief laugh face photo coffee offend cough relief fact phone confident perfect deaf safe find Philip defend reform golf staff […]

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