Preface -- Helping students understand that written and spoken English are different -- Preparing students to accept the ideas of connected speech -- Word stress -- Schwa and weak vs. strong forms -- Sentence stress and timing -- Transitions -- Dropping sounds -- Inserting sounds -- Changing sounds -- Contractions and blendings -- Question forms -- Functions -- Modal and auxiliary verb phrases -- Teaching techniques -- References

1. English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
2. English language -- Pronunciation -- Study and teaching