ISBN: 9788120306707    Publisher: PHI LEARNING PVT. LTD. Year of publishing: 1993     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 112        Language: English

Addressed to an educated user of English, the book, together with a set of two audio cassettes, offers a 'Teach Your-self' course in the pronunciation of English words. Written in a non-technical language, it contains considerable amount of practice materials too.Part I deals with important facts about the pronunciation of English words and the principal attributes of good speech; Part II contains a pronouncing dictionary of some 2,500 commonly used, but often mispronounced, words of English and about 60 foreign words and phrases often used in Eng-lish. The selection of the words and phrases is based partly on research and partly on the authors' long experience.
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J. SETHI (M.A., Linguistics and English Language Teaching, Leeds University; Ph.D., English Phonetics) has been Professor of English, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL), Hyderabad. He also served as coordinator (1986-91) of the UGC Curriculum Development Centre for English. Dr. Sethi has rich experience in training teachers and students in Phonetics and Spoken English. He has also published six other books and a number of articles. |Dr. D. V. JINDAL, Ph.D., was a senior faculty member of the Postgraduate Department of English, Government College, Ludhiana, Punjab. He has several books to his credit.
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