SPOKEN FLUENCY E                    SPRING 2011


Location and time: E – Room G31, Tuesday 10:50-12:25

                                 B -  Room G21, Tuesday 12:30-14:25


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

           office hours: Tue 2:10-3:40pm, Wed12:303-2pm, 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. 22: 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. 1: Revision of nursery rhyme. Segmental exercises.

Mch. 8: Tongue twisters.

Mch. 15: Stress patterns.

Mch. 22: The Chaos.

Mch 29: Presentations: Tomková and Zuskinová, Blovská.


 Apr. 5: Reading Week.


Apr. 12: Mikeš, Sojáková.


Apr. 19: Hevessyová, Doležalová, Holíková.


Apr. 26:  Staroňová, Kleinová, Mašková.


May 3: Greif, Kuhnová, Laszáková.


May 10: Janáková, Janků, Máčalová.


May 17: Feedback class, assessments.