English Pronunciation Skills for the Workplace is a short course designed to develop your understanding of the principles of English pronunciation, and to equip yourself with the analytical and practical skills to target and improve the more challenging aspects of pronunciation. The course aims to develop your clarity and ease in spoken English in ways that are valued in the global workplace. Throughout this course, strong emphasis is placed on communication and active practice.

This 20-hour course runs over ten weeks (2 hours per week) and classes are synchronously timetabled. You will be actively engaged in activities on a wide range of topics, and you will receive personalised feedback on your participation in these activities. Activities in this course include:

• Study of English phonemes

• Guided practice at syllable, word, and sentence level

• Analysis of examples of good speech

• Presentations, discussions and self-reflection

You will learn technical and mechanical aspects of pronunciation, and discuss and practise many pronunciation elements that will equip you to work towards:

• producing specific spoken English pronunciation elements correctly

• analysing recorded speech and identifying aspects of pronunciation

• speaking at length with an awareness of correct English vocal qualities

• identifying, analysing and correcting own English pronunciation errors

For more information, please visit https://www.utas.edu.au/study/short-courses/english-pronunciation-skills-for-the-workplace