《英语语音》为英语及英语师范专业的一门专业基础课程，开设的对象是英语专业和英语师范专业大学一年级学生，开设时间为第一学期。本课程介绍英语语音的基本概念、调型结构及其含义，学习语音的基本知识，掌握英语语调的调核位置与信息焦点的关系，对比汉语声调与英语语调之间的差别，帮助学生排除母语的负迁移干扰，领悟英语本族语者在口语交际中如何使用语调，并能将其应用到自己的言语行为中去。
语音是语言学习三大要素（音、形、意）中最为重要的部分之一，对于从事师范教育和口译工作的人员尤为重要。本课程将系统教授元音、辅音、音节、重音、语调的基本知识，改变以往“重音轻调”的教学模式，帮助学生克服“中国腔”的困扰。正确地把握重音及话语节奏规律，通过使用得体的语音语调达到交际的目的，形成自然流畅的语流，养成良好的口语习惯。课程目标如下：
掌握元音、辅音基本音素的发音，
掌握多音节词的重音模式及复合词的重音位置；
熟悉并会使用功能词的强读式与弱读式；
把握句子重音及话语节奏规律；
熟悉调群的构成部分：调核前音段及调核音段；
掌握英语的基本调式结构，包括升调、降调、降升调、升降调等的曲线轮廓和调核前音段、调核音段的音调模式；
运用3T语调理论划分调群、确立调核位置；
正确得体地使用各种调型，准确表达话语含义。
Unit 1 Introduction
1-1\tCourse Description
1-2\tDescription of English Speech Sounds
1-3\tPhysiology of speech sounds
Achievement Test 1
Unit 2 Vowel
2-1\tDescription of Vowels
2-2\tDescription of English Monophthongs
2-3\tFront vowels
2-4\tBack Vowels
2-5\tCentral Vowels
2-6\tDiphthongs
2-7\tDiphthongs
2-8\tSummary & Achievement Test
Achievement Test 2
Unit 3 Consonants
3-1 Description of Consonants
3-2 Plosives
3-3 Nasals
3-4 Fricative
3-5 Affricates
3-6 Approximants
3-7 Summary & Achievement tests
Achievement tests 3
Unit 4 Sounds and Spelling
4-1 English spelling system
4-2 Vowel letters
4-3 Consonant letters
4-4 Summary & Achievement test
Achievement tests 4
Unit 5 Syllables and Consonant Clusters
5-1 Syllables
5-2\tSyllabic consonants
5-3\tSyllable types
5-4\tConsonant clusters
5-5\tSyllabification
5-6\tAchievement test
Achievement test 5
Unit 6 Word Stress and Vowel Reduction
6-1 Word stress
6-2 Vowel reduction
6-3 Pitch patterns of a word
6-4 Placement of word stress
6-5 Stress of compounds
6-6 Achievement tests
Achievement tests 6
Unit 7 Sentence Stress & Weak Forms
7-1 Sentence stress (I)
7-2 Sentence stress (II)
7-3 Weak forms
Achievement tests
Unit 8 Connected Speech
8-1 Rhythm (I)
8-2 Rhythm (II)
8-3 Linking
8-4 Assimilation
8-5 Elision
8-6 Achievement test
Achievement tests 8
Unit 9 Intonation
9-1 Tonality-the Division of the Intonation Phrase
9-2 Tonicity-the placement of Nuclear Syllable (I)
9-3 Tonicity-the placement of Nuclear Syllable (II)
9-4 Tone-the Selection of Nuclear Tone (1)
9-5 Tone-the Selection of Nuclear Tone (2)
9-6 Tone-the Selection of Nuclear Tone (3)
9-7 Tone-the Selection of Nuclear Tone (4)
Achievement tests 9
Unit 10 Pitch Contour
10-1 The Components of the intonation phrase
10-2 Pitch contour of prenuclear segment
10-3 Pitch contour of nuclear segment
10-4 Pitch contour of the whole intonation phrase
10-5 Achievement tests
Achievement tests 10