American Accent Program

Age Range: 13-Adult
Platforms: Mac and Windows
Medium: CD-ROM
Cost: $295.00 for Individual or Instructor programs (Multi-User Lab Packs and Site Licensing are available)

Company: Ford Language Institute
Phone: (714) 854-4700

Description:

The American Accent Program is an ESL pronunciation and intonation tutor for beginning, intermediate and advanced Engish speakers. The program is designed to assist in learning English pronunciation and helping with accent reduction. Students are taken step-by step through the pronunciation and intonation of all American sounds. Designed by speech and ESL professionals, this program provides instructions and exercises in all the vowel and consonant sounds, as well as intonation . . . the "melody" of American English. Exercises are presented by male and female native speakers and students record and compare their voices with the ease of interactive learning.

Vowel, consonant, and intonation exercises include tongue position, lip position, jaw position, tongue tension, vowel length, compound vowels, vowel sounds, vowel pairs, vowel length drills, vowel reductions, place, airflow, voicing, consonant sounds, L Exercises (blends of L, vowel and final L, blade L, dental L, velar L, and combinations of L), R Exercises (beginning R, middle R, and ending R), stress, pitch, duration, intensity, steps and glides, intonation patterns (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), sentence level intonation (falling, rising, linking), word reductions, compound nouns, heteronyms, contrastive intonation, response drills, and tag questions. Over 300 hours of instruction and 1000's of sound, word and sentence level exercises are included.

Features:

High degree of interactivity increases users interest

Develops listening discrimination

Voice recording capability

Entire section devoted to intonation

Network version available for both PC's and Mac's

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Howard J. Bender, Ph.D.
President
The Education Process Improvement Center, Inc.
P.O. Box 186
Riverdale, Maryland 20738
hjbender@epicent.com