SPOKEN FLUENCY D, E                     FALL  2012


Location and time. D: Room G22, Thursday 1730-1900

                                 E: G22, Thu 1910-2040

Facilitator: PhDr. Kateřina Tomková, Ph.D., 2060@mail.muni.cz;

office hours: Tue 1600-1700, Wed 1400-1500, Thu 1300-1500.


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

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

Overall assessment:

STUDENTS AVERAGE + FINAL TEST - ABSENCES:

3 pts if away on business, advertized prior to class

                            4 pts for personal reasons, adv. prior to class

                            5 pts if unexcused or missed presentation date






Sep. 27: Introduction. Constituents of a good spoken (x written)

              performance. Knowledge x skill. Automaticity.

              Spelling and pronunciation: The Chaos, the collection of

              pronunciation errors. A nursery rhyme and song to practice.


Oct. 4: Revision of nursery rhyme. Segmental exercises.

            Presentation dates.


Oct. 11: Tongue twisters. Stress patterns and the Chaos
www.cs.cmu.edu/~clamen/misc/.../TheChaos.htm  assigned.


Oct. 18: Stress patterns, the Chaos and presentation by K. Tomková.


Oct. 25: Presentations         D – VeronikaS, TaraP, AdamF.

                                               E – TerezaW7l, ZuzanaM4l, RadovanK3.


Nov. 1: Presentations           D – JanaH, LucieS, MarieW.

                                               E – BarboraL4f,   MichaelaZ8f, OndřejK11.


Nov.  8: Presentations          D – EkaterinaDK, LenkaV, MichaelaH,

                                                    MartinaŠ.

                                     E – Ilayda10l, JanC9f, FilipP5l.


Nov. 15                                  D – Reading Week.

                                               E - not keeping Reading Week,

                          presentations: JanČ2, BarboraŠ8l, OmniaAH10f.



Nov. 22: Presentations         D – IvaA, BarboraC, TerezaS.

                                               E – VeronikaŠ6l, KristýnaP5f, ZulemaBC1.


Nov. 29: Presentations         D – RomanLB, OtakarS, RadkaH.

                                               E – WaelMR9l, JoséVM7f, JoséCRM6f.


Dec. 6: no class, facilitator at Conference.


Dec. 13: Credit test, assessments.