The best way to improve listening comprehension is to improve pronunciation. How can you distinguish R and L, of r example, if you cannot say the sounds yourself? In this course, the instructor will cover groups of three, sometimes, two, vowel or consonant sounds each week. These sounds will be practiced intensely. From there the finer points of stress and intonation will be covered, followed by an extensive listening practice of weak forms of North American English, such as "gonna" and "wanna", in dialog form. The dialog form will be practiced out loud. The materials are the instructor's own. This class would make a very effective complement to the TOEIC class in the same afternoon.

Instructor: John Bockman is a full-time instructor in the English for Academic Purposes program at Lakeland College Japan. He holds an M.A. in ESL from the University of Arizona and has taught fluency drills off and on for about 20 years.