oral intelligibility

The question of what makes a speaker intelligible was raised by Earl Stevek in the beginning of 90s.Then the trend was captured and developed.Dr Scott,the presenter,successfully introduced different techniques of teaching pronunciation on segmental level,rhythm,intonation,linking,projection and reductions on the suprasegmental level.Each technique was discussed accurately and different types of examples were offered.The most interesting ones were:1)using rap music to practise suprasegmentals;2)using nursery rhymes to practise stressed elements;3)teaching linking through sound productions;4)teaching the change in meaning by sentence stress paraphrasing;5)using kazoo to immitate intonation patterns. The importance of drama based methods on the example of Manhattan transfer and oral dramatic readings was interestingly presented.All the feedbacks from students were positive.