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This program is designed specifically to train client and students who want to improve their English pronunciation. In addition to the text, practice materials will be developed from each student's personal speaking situations. Pronunciation emphasis includes: VOWEL AND CONSONANT PRODUCTION: Sound discrimination, production of the sound in isolation, words, phrases, sentences, readings, dialogues, and conversation. Common problems include such words as light/right, beat/bit, and shop/chop as well as pronunciation of final consonants. STRESS: Photograph/photography, record/record, and many other confusing words will be practiced. Stress patterns will be explained that will help you predict which syllable to stress in unfamiliar words. INTONATION: How the students like to express their feeling or meaning of your words. REDUCED SOUNDS AND BLENDING: Vietnamese is a tonal language so when one learns to speak Vietnamese (s)he needs to pay close attention on the pitch and tone of the word, phrase and sentence. Americans who often tie words together and drop some sounds in a predictable manner, but this can be very confusing for non-native speakers. Choral chants and practice with real dialogues will help students become more comfortable with these patterns. Private pronunciation instruction is also available. The cost for private instruction is $70 per hour. Providing a service to train the Vietnamese American clients who desire to improve their effective communication skills. OCVIA offers Vietnamese Accent Reduction training and American cultural training programs to create clear and mutual understanding in communication for the Vietnamese Americans with their colleagues, their co-workers or clients at the work place and/or business activities. OCVIA also offers train-the-trainers programs which are a cost-effective solution for many organizations that have large numbers of people to attend. Accent Reduction-Corporation Program Many organizations have groups of Vietnamese American workers whose English is their second language. They perform special jobs and positions in which they interact with the non-Vietnamese speakers daily. OCVIA’s Group Accent Reduction Programs are designed for these organizations. OCVIA’s Train-the-Trainer Program trains managers, supervisors and trainers Accent Reduction technique, and culture and language differences so they in turn will be able to work with their workers. Group Accent Reduction HOW IT WORKS: First: New line Accent Reduction trainer identifies the client problems, then teaches the students how to correct the problems the trainer directs to and focuses the student to the right actions and steps to make the needed changes. Second: Homework is necessary for students to enrich and broaden the skills. Third: A final assessment is done to determine whether each student meets the minimum performance levels needed to perform the job. |