Research Guides: English Language Program (ELP) Students: Speaking

Improve your presentation skills

BBC Skillswise
Learn about the differences in formal and informal speaking, and how to give a presentation. Includes quizzes to test your knowledge.

These resources will help you speak English without an accent:

American Accent Training
Call Number: Cabell Library Storage (Compact Discs) (PE1137 .C66 2000)

5 audio CDs, which can be listened to in the Workshop in Cabell Library's lower level. Through extensive intonation and pronunciation exercises, students learn how to speak with a standard American Accent. At the same time, listening comprehension improves dramatically. Includes detailed nationality guides for eight languages (Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Korean).
Foreign Accent Management
Call Number: Click link above to view online.

This book discusses the problems involved with reducing a non-native accent and provides exercises to help overcome these problems.
Speaking without an accent : training in non-regional American dialect
Call Number: Cabell Library Storage (PE2841 .S73 1982)

Instruction on how to speak in various American accents. Includes 8 audiocassettes (480 minutes), which can be listened to in the Workshop in Cabell Library's lower level, and 8 manuals.