SPOKEN FLUENCY D                      SPRING 2011


Location and time: Room G21, Thursday 12:30-14:05



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. 24: 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. 3: Revision of nursery rhyme. Segmental exercises.

Mch. 10: Tongue twisters.

Mch. 17: Stress patterns.

Mch. 24: The Chaos.


Mch 31: Presentations: Tomková, Foustka and Harnušek.

Apr. 7: Reading Week.

Apr. 14:  Zemgulyte, Dudková, Kučera.

Apr. 21: Slavíčková, Nováková.


Apr. 28: Čajková, Mano.


May 5: Sommerová, Kišová.

May 12:  Hošková, Langrová.


May 19: Feedback class, assessments.