About the Book

The Pals (Pronunciation and Listening Skills) series was fashioned to serve as a comprehensive, informative, and functional tool aimed at encouraging the teaching of English pronunciation and improving the communication skills of students of ESL (English as a Second Language).

This book, WORD PALS, focus's on the most important features of NAE (North American English), or more specifically, Canadian English, that impact on the intelligibility of second language learners and offer a simplified course of study for both instructors and pronunciation students.

WORD PALS intends to:

• Simplify the theoretical aspects of Canadian English pronunciation and equip the instructor with adequate linguistic knowledge and instructional tools to address the needs of the pronunciation student with confidence and ease

• Organize the significant elements of language at the world level (segmentals) in a concise and comprehensible teaching and learning sequence that mimics the natural language acquisition process

• Provide a phonemic-based syllabus that offers pedagogical techniques, visual and aural stimuli, and interactive exercises to enhance detection (listening) and production (speaking) skills and target successful comprehension and comprehensibility

This Book Represents the essence of 17 years experience in a culturally diverse environment that has not only developed an awareness of but also inspired a passion for logic, illogic, and linguistic realities of the spoken language.

It is my desire and hope WORD PALS becomes a part of your daily ESL curriculum.