Projected Course Syllabus for Accent Reduction 101

Session 1 Introduction to American melody

Producing sentences with American melody

Multi-syllable word practice

Multi-syllable phrase practice

Introduction to the speech notebook

Read Successful Practice Unit 1

Session 2 Complex sentences with American melody

Introduction to Speech Triggers

Review statements from your speech notebook

Role play speech triggers

Speaking Styles of Well Known Broadcasters article

Session 3 Advanced/spontaneous American melody

/TH/ with single words

Decreasing Facial Tension article

Controlling a Fast Rate of Speech article

Rehearse lines from your speech notebook

Role play speech triggers  

Session 4 Practice strategies from session's 3, 2 articles

Review lines from your speech notebook

/TH/ at the sentence level

Conversational practice with melody

Speech notebook and trigger rehearsal

Session 5 Consonant chart and sound styles

Voiced and voiceless ending sounds

Final consonant clusters and contractions

Identify sounds in statements from your speech notebook

Role play speech triggers

Session 6 Introduce American /er/

Introduce /L/

/ing/

Final /er/

Middle /er/

Self-Assessment

Session 7 Continue /er/ in the middle and final position

/L/ in the middle and final position of words

/L/ blends

Advanced /ing/

Self-Assessment

Session 8 /R/ blends

/R/ in the initial position

/THR/ blends

Notebook and triggers to emphasize /R/ and /L/

/R/ and /L/ together in words

Session 9 Front vowel chart and sounds

Comparing the front vowel sounds

Schwa center vowel

/R/ and /L/ advanced work

Session 10 Back vowel sounds

Comparing the back vowel sounds

Rehearse front vowel sounds and schwa

Isolate vowel sounds from statements in your speech notebook

Session 11 /R/ and /L/ vowel blends

Vowel work continues

Diphthongs

Self-Assessment

Session 12 New consonants missing from repertoire

Vowel work with /R/ and /L/

Comparing front and back vowels

Session 13 Advanced melody

Vowel isolation in syllables

Review accuracy of consonant production

Assessment of progress

Accent Reduction 201

Advanced Training for Conversational American Sounding Speech

• Improved clarity and accuracy of consonant and vowel sounds
• Improve /R/ and /L/
• Voice Projection
• Speaking in your ideal pitch range
• Resonance
• Business Communication Strategies
  
  
  

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