Friday, August 15, 2008

Book Review> Speech Making and English Pronunciation by Dele Omojuigbe

Speech Making and English pronunciation by Dele Omojuigbe is a must read for everyone who want learn proper way of speech making and English pronunciation.

The book attempted to simplify English pronunciation for students and at the same time, teach them the processes of effective public speaking.

Speech making and English Pronunciation is a resource material topics which students, and other users should be able to understand easily and thereafter put into practice.

Chapter five of this book described the understanding of the English Vowel chart which help the reader to understand easily the pure vowels of English. The pure vowels is been described from three perspectives. The tongue height. frontness or backness of the tongue, and the shape of the lips. Having those cateria in mind, an attempt was made to describe the pure vowels, using Daniel Jones description as a guide.

Speech Making and English pronunciation is quite voluminous with enough information that will glue your eyes to the book until you finish it without realising how much time you have spent reading the book.

The author wise choice for the cover page is the first attraction to the book. The two colours that was used for cover page is ox blood and cream colour attract the eyes in a very special way,before an individual get to the title which is quite captivating, it is a must read for everyone both young and old, there is whole lot of information to learn from the book.




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