SPOKEN FLUENCY C, A                 SPRING 2011


Location and time: C – Room G22,Wednesday 10:50-12:25

                                 A -  Room G21, Wednesday 14:10-15:45


Facilitator: PhDr. Kateřina Tomková, Ph.D., tomkat@phil.muni.cz;

           office hours: Tue 2:10-3:40pm, Wed12:30-2pm, Thu 11-12:30


Assessment: Peer

1 You assess presentations you were present at (not your own).

2 You scale them from best (80pts) to worst with min.

- 2 pts difference between them if you heard 11+ presentations,

- 3 pts difference between them if you were present to 9 or 10 presentations,

- 4 pts difference between them if you witnessed 7 or 8 presentations,

- 5 pts gap if you heard 5 or 6 presentations.

3 Your criteria are

-          the presentation: how new, useful and memorable you found it for your speaking practice

-          preparation: how innovative you found methods of presenting facts and strategies of
retaining skills; effort invested in rehearsing



Feb. 23: Introduction. Constituents of a good spoken (x written)

              performance. Knowledge x skill. Automaticity.

              Spelling and pronunciation: The Chaos.

              A collection of pronunciation errors.

              Spacing presentations. A nursery rhyme.

Mch. 2: Revision of nursery rhyme. Segmental exercises.

Mch. 9: Tongue twisters.

Mch. 16: Stress patterns.

Mch. 23: The Chaos.

Mch 30: Presentations: Tomková and C – Kilic.

                                                             A – Hladilová.

 Apr. 6: Reading week.


Apr. 13: C – Voštinárová, Vokoun, Nováková.

              A – Šenšelová, Močičková.


Apr. 20: C – Mareš, Yilmaz, Štefancová.

              A – Kaplanová, Součková.


Apr. 27: C: Lamichová, Králová, Korosiová

              A: Sukovatý, Nejedlíková, Blumaierová.


May 4: C – Šebešová, Střihavková, Marcin.

            A – Pelech, Pavlíková.


May 11: C –  Hasák, Dzurenková.

              A – Medunová, Jarušek.


May 18: Feedback class, assessments.