Handbook for oral readers of English as a second language /
Adelaida Paterno
- First Edition.
- Quezon City, Philippines : Rex Book Store, c2003
- xiv, 185 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part I. Preliminaries to the study of spoken English -- Part II. Toward oral reading effectiveness - Part III. The suprasegmentals and the rhythm of English -- Part IV. Pronunciation problems.
The handbook lessons are geared primarily toward gaining an acceptably correct speech flow, which is the key to intelligibility, and which is achieved by the correct use of English stress, rhythm, intonation, and juncture, and secondarily toward a correct pronunciation of the vowels and consonants of English.