A HANDBOOK OF PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS: (WITH TWO 90-MINUTE AUDIO CASSETTES)

J. SETHI · D. V. JINDAL

Jan 1993 · PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

About this ebook

Addressed to an educated user of English, the book, together with a set of two audio cassettes, offers a 'Teach Your-self' course in the pronunciation of English words. Written in a non-technical language, it contains considerable amount of practice materials too.Part I deals with important facts about the pronunciation of English words and the principal attributes of good speech; Part II contains a pronouncing dictionary of some 2,500 commonly used, but often mispronounced, words of English and about 60 foreign words and phrases often used in Eng-lish. The selection of the words and phrases is based partly on research and partly on the authors' long experience.

About the author

SETHI J. J. SETHI (M.A., Linguistics and English Language Teaching, Leeds University; Ph.D., English Phonetics) has been Professor of English, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL), Hyderabad. He also served as coordinator (1986–91) of the UGC Curriculum Development Centre for English. Dr. Sethi has rich experience in training teachers and students in Phonetics and Spoken English. He has also published six other books and a number of articles. JINDAL, D. V. Dr. D. V. JINDAL, Ph.D., was a senior faculty member of the Postgraduate Department of English, Government College, Ludhiana, Punjab. He has several books to his credit.