ERIC Number: EJ593275
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Publication Date: 1997
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Building Fluency: A Course for Non-Native Speakers of English.
Tam, Moh-Kim
Forum, v35 n1 Jan-Mar 1997
Describes a speech course conducted recently with a group of Chinese graduate students who have minimal experience with spoken English. The students were highly competent in their field of study--engineering--but displayed low oral proficiency in English. The course encourages repetition of utterances and focuses on voice quality and reduced forms of speech.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, Engineering Education, English (Second Language), Feedback, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Language Fluency, Oral Language, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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