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 <td><h1>Welcome to Pronunciation Excellence!</h1>
 
This on-line pronunciation course is intended for language students majoring in English. The main objective of it is to enhance students' pronunciation skills and increase their linguistic competence in target language acquisition. 
The course provides sufficient practice in listening and production in order to amplify students' automated skills both at word and utterance levels. 
 
<h2>Academic Objectives of the Course</h2>
 <ul><li>to promote students' independent work</li><li>to foster the development of listening and production skills</li><li>to enhance students' communicative competence</li></ul></td>
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The development of the course was initiated as part of the academic research program granted by 
Coimbra Group to Anna Iushchenko at the University of Padova, Italy, in September-November 2010. 
 
 
Deepest appreciation must be given to those people who have inspired and contributed to the development of this course: 
Suzanne Cloke, Professor of English, University of Padova, Italy 
Maria Grazia Busa, Professor of Phonetics, University of Padova, Italy 
Katherine Ackerley, Methodologist, University of Padova, Italy 
 
 
Please feel free to share any ideas and experiences how to improve this course, 
notify your progress and don't be shy to speak about it, 
have much fun and enjoy practising the English sounds and intonation! 
 
 
Anna Iushchenko 
Associate Professor of English 
Kirovohrad State Pedagogical University 
named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko 
1 Shevchenko St., Kirovohrad, Ukraine 25000 
 
 
 
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Yuliya Libkina 
 
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Carbon NYC