- 50% written assessment (short answer and multiple choice)
- 50% oral assessment (just on pronunciation we’ve covered)
- Voiced vs. voiceless consonants
- “ED” and /s/ & /z/ pronunciation based on voicedness
- Recognizing, distinguishing, and producing consonants and consonant blends (all consonants)
- Recognizing, distinguishing and producing vowels and vowel blends (particularly long and short vowels)
- Syllable stress
- Intonation (word prominence/stress & sentence rhythm, pitch, location of rise and fall)
- Changes in pronunciation due to connected and natural speech
- Anatomy and physiology of speech production
- Spelling patterns as they relate to pronunciation
- Pronouncing words based on reading phonetic symbols