The pronunciation segment of the final exam consisted of ten (10) dialogs and three (3) excerpts from passages in one of the textbooks. The students had had intensive practice with these passages, in class, on videotape and audiotape, and as recorded homework assignments. The dialogs had not been studied before the final exam. They comprised elements of pronunciation that had been studied in other forms in class, lab and for homework:

Students' spoken responses were evaluated holistically on overall comprehensibility, fluency and accuracy, for a maximum of 100 points.

• consonants
• vowels
• thought groups
• statement intonation
• yes-no question intonation
• Wh-question intonation
• listing intonation
• choice question intonation
• word stress
• noun compound stress
• phrasal verb stress
• normal phrase stress
• contrastive phrase stress
• rhythm
• vowel length
• reduction
• linking

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A Chigusa

B Li

C Mariela

D Anh