Course Name Year Term Period Faculty / Graduate School All Instructors Credits
14521:[2025 Spring]English Listening and Pronunciation (JB) § 14522:English Listening and Pronunciation (JB) 2025 Spring Tue4 College　Of　Law SHEFFRIN ALEXANDER 2

Campus

KIC

Class Venue

ZONSHINKAN　ZS206

Language

Japanese

Course Outline and Method

This course is designed to improve students’ listening, pronunciation and speaking skills. Students will learn to focus and improve on key skill areas in listening, pronunciation, and speaking through textbook exercises and authentic sources of English through films, TV commercials, video clips, and lectures. Students in this course will complete film and TV commercial recording projects with important detail to pronunciation. Students will also engage in communicatively focused activities. In principle, classes will be held face to face.

Student Attainment Objectives

1. Improve listening, speaking, and pronunciation skills
2. Identify and use different English speech techniques with a focus on stress, intonation, rhythm, and tone
3. Complete film and TV commercial recordings with detail to accurate pronunciation, rhythm, and tone.

Recommended Preparatory Course

Course Schedule

Lecture/Instructor（When there are multiple instructors) Theme
Keyword, References and Supplementary Information
1

Course Introduction and policies
+R-Jugyo course explanation and activity

Unit 1: Vowel and Word Stress
Students will do self introductions and discuss the importance of pronunciation in English.
Students will learn about vowels and vowel rules and relative vowel sounds
+R-Jugyo course explanation and activity

2

Unit 1: Vowel and Word Stress

Students will learn about word stress and vowel length and rules for stress
Students will engage in extensive listening through video clips and group discussion activities concerning their content.

3

Unit 1: Vowel and Word Stress

Students will learn about word stress and vowel clarity and contrasting clear vowels.
Students will watch examples of video clips and use of pronunciation and word stress in films and discuss their content.
Students will get into groups and begin a voice-recording project with a focus on pronunciation, word stress, tone, and rhythm.

4

Unit 1: Vowel and Word Stress

Students will learn about word stress patterns and stress rules.
Students will continue working on a group voice-recording project and engage in peer discussion and feedback.

5

Unit 1 Review on Vowel and Word Stress

Students will engage in extensive listening for examples to discuss and analyze focus and content words.
Students will continue working on a group voice-recording project and engage in peer discussion and feedback.

6

Unit 1 Test on Vowel and Word Stress
Unit 2: Sentence Focus

Students will learn about focus and content words.
Students will present their group voice recordings and give peer feedback and discussions on pronunciation, tone, word stress, and rhythm.

7

Unit 2: Sentence Focus

Students will learn about focus and structure words.
Students will learn about how to deemphasize structure words and listen to and discuss about examples.

8

Unit 2: Sentence Focus

Students will learn about listening for and using focus rules in conversations. Students will complete structured listening and speaking activities.

9

Unit 2: Sentence Focus

Students will learn about emphasizing structure words.
Students will do listening and discussions about TV commercials and their pronunciation and structure words.

10

Unit 3: Consonants

Students will learn about consonants and stops
Students will get into groups and begin a TV commercial project about a product using correct pronunciation.

11

Unit 3: Consonants

Students will continue learn about voicing
Students will continue working in groups on a TV commercial project while giving peer feedback and discussions

12

Unit 3: Consonants
Unit 2 Test

Students will learn about sibilants
Students will do extensive listening and discussions.
Students will continue working in groups on a TV commercial project while giving peer feedback and discussions

13

Unit 3 Constants Review
Unit 4: Thought Groups

Students will present their TV commercial projects and give peer feedback
Students will prepare for a sales talk presentation about their TV commercials

14

Unit 4 Review

Students will review thought groups
Students will give a sales talk presentation about their TV commercials using correct pronunciation.

Class Format

All classes will meet face to face this semester

Recommendations for Private Study

Be sure to prepare each unit of the textbook before class and to review it again after class.

Grade Evaluation Method

Kind Percentage Grading Criteria etc.
Final Examination (Written)

Report Examination
(A report to be submitted by the unified deadline)

Exams and/or Reports other than those stated above, and Continuous Assessment　
(Evaluation of Everyday Performance in Class)		 100

Tests and Presentations 30%
Recordings and Projects 30%
Homework 20%
Active Participation 20%

Grade Evaluation Method （Note）

The textbook will be used every week.
Coming to class late or without textbook will affect participation points.
Students must participate in at least two thirds of class meetings in order to pass the course.

Advice to Students on Study and Research Methods

Textbooks

Title Author Publisher ISBN Code Comment
Clear Speech Student's Book with Integrated Digital Learning, 4th ed. Judy B. Gilbert Cambridge 978-1-108-65933-8

Textbooks （Frequency of Use, Note）

The textbook will be used every week.

Reference Books

Reference Books （Frequency of Use, Note）

Web Pages for Reference

How to Communicate with the Instructor In and Out of Class(Including Instructor Contact Information)

Learning Management System （manaba+R）,Talk with Students

Other Comments

Syllabus is subject to change during the semester.
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