Workshop: Sound Advice - Improve Your Accent by Avoiding the Main Pitfalls of English Pronunciation_Nachholtermin March 30

Sound Advice – Improve Your Accent by Avoiding the Main Pitfalls of English Pronunciation

Target Group

You should consider joining this workshop …

• if you are aware that your English accent could do with a bit of practice,
• if you are quite happy with your accent but have become a bit 'rusty', or
• if you have always enjoyed working on your accent and would like to polish it even further.

For the learner, English pronunciation holds a few well-known challenges – and some lesser known ones, too. In international communication, being able to avoid most of those pitfalls means that, your accent will come across as natural, effortless and easy to understand. And while there is no need to sound precisely like a native speaker, not having to struggle with your pronunciation will enhance your spoken fluency and will help to put your listener at ease.

Workshop Goals

This workshop aims to …

• make you aware of the main 'articulation traps' in English,
• give you your own pronunciation profile to work on, and
• guide you through useful pronunciation practice.

Workshop Methods

This workshop consists of:

• a kick-off workshop with a little theory and lots of individual practice,
• a four-week period of guided online practice, and
• a final online tutorial to wrap up what we have achieved, and where you could go from there.

Location, Date and Time

Monday, 30 March 2020, 10.30 am - 4.00 pm

All registered participants will be informed of the location by email one week before the event.

Fees and Registration

This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is March 16, 2020.

Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged. Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.

To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. By registration for this workshop, you accept our terms and conditions “Workshop and Event Registration Information Sheet”. Further information on the collection of personal data can be found in the document “Information obligations pursuant to Art. 13 and 14 of the GDPR”.

For any further information please contact Nina Rath (Nina.Rath@wu.ac.at, Ext. 6173).

The course fee is €10.

Dr. Gunter Lorenz   Dr Gunter Lorenz has been teaching at university level for over 25 years and currently works as Director of the Language Centre at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics of English and has a track record in foreign language theory, media-based language teaching and new forms of learning. Dr Lorenz has worked as a language teacher and teaching consultant for several universities, including Cambridge (UK) and WU Wien (since 2013). He is the editor and co-author of SoundAdvice, an online course of English pronunciation.