Intensive phonetic monologues for practice in English as a second language is a textbook designed for beginners in phonetics and phonology especially those registered for the school certificate oral English examination and those registered the first year spoken English Programs of the nation’s tertiary institutions. Because of its audience, we have adopted both a practical approach which multiplies examples for the monologues and also an explanatory approach which, in the form of accompanying short notes, throws some light on what the learner is doing in the monologues.
Thus, in the monologues the learner is given profuse practice of the phoneme and in the notes the phoneme is briefly explained. By this approach we have hoped to eliminate the notorious scarecrow which confronts beginners in the study and use of the English phonemes. Second language users desiring to have an elementary grasp of its sounds must read this book.
