Pronunciation Workout for Foreign Language Learners

Videotape

You know how baseball players stretch and flex their muscles before playing a game. And you realize that musicians play chords and scales before performing a concert. You, as a speaker, can enhance your oral production by warming up your vocal apparatus. This innovative video is the workout tape of the speaking athlete! It guides you through a 20-minute workout series including relaxation, tensing and flexing of muscles. 33 minutes, VHS format.

Designed for both teacher training and language learning classroom use, the Pronunciation Workout is used in teaching foreign languages, especially in classes where oral production is a primary goal.

Purposes:

• To prepare vocal apparatus for clarity, comfort and strength in speaking
• To relax the body and relieve tension related to oral production
• To enhance muscle extension and flexibility
• To control breathing

Audiotape

Script of the videotape, with additional repetitions of the pronunciation workout routine.