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Pronunciation improvement in EFL young learners through phonics instruction
Praxis, 2016 This article is based on a mixed research, whose objective was the use of Phonics Instruction to improve pronunciation of four sounds /θ/ , /ð/, /I/ and /I:/ in young learners in a private school in Bogotá.
María Andrea Beltrán-Herrera +2 more
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Can pronunciation be taught? A review of research and implications for teaching
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2004 Pronunciation teaching has often been relegated to a subsidiary role of broader language performance skills such as speaking and listening, but in the past few years instruction on specific features of the spoken language have been reassessed and ...
Barrera Pardo, Darío
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Teaching Pronunciation with Computer Assisted Pronunciation Instruction in a Technological University [PDF]
Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016 The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of computer assisted pronunciation instruction in English pronunciation for students in vocational colleges and universities in Taiwan. The participants were fifty-one first-year undergraduate students from a technological university located in central Taiwan. The participants received an eight-
Sze-Chu Liu, Po-Yi Hung
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Development and Construct Validation of a Diagnostic Pronunciation Rating Scale by Many-Facet Rasch Analysis [PDF]
International Journal of TESOL Studies, 2020 Assessment of pronunciation has long been established as an integral component of speaking assessment, usually combined with other dimensions such as fluency, lexico-grammatical resources and topic development to generate an overall score for the ...
Sen Liu, Zijie Niu, Yuanyue Hao
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English Learning InnovationThe use of digital technology has significantly transformed traditional pedagogical practice for pronunciation instruction. Numerous studies have explored the positive and negative impact of digital tools in pronunciation instruction, yet only a limited
Yuliyanto Sabat +2 more
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A Discussion of the Ins and Outs of L2 Pronunciation Instruction: A Clash of Methodologies
Ana Dili Eğitimi Dergisi, 2018 The value attached to pronunciation has kept changing continually in the methodological history of language instruction. Depending on the nature of methodological considerations that dominated research and teaching agenda, it either received too much ...
Arif Bakla, Mehmet Demirezen
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Pronunciation Instruction and Students’ Practice to Develop Their Confidence in EFL Oral Skills
Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014 The aim of this article is to inform on research intended to find out how pronunciation instruction of English as a foreign language was handled in the language classroom with elementary students and also understand if pronunciation instruction had an ...
Ana Cristina Tlazalo Tejeda +1 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsTeaching a foreign language requires instructors to be knowledgeable about and capable of providing instruction that facilitates their students’ ability to understand, speak, read, and write the new language. However, as established within the literature,
Asma Almusharraf
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Native-speaker and English as a lingua franca pronunciation norms: English majors’ views
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011 Within the communicative approach to English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching, the aims of instruction are primarily to enable learners to communicate; hence, functional and communicative intelligibility has become the goal of pronunciation training.
Aleksandra Wach
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Effect of pronunciation instruction on L2 learners’ listening comprehension [PDF]
Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 2020 Abstract This study explored the potential impact of pronunciation instruction on L2 listening comprehension. Seventy-two intermediate Vietnamese EFL university learners formed two groups. The pronunciation group (n = 35) received seven weekly 45-minute pronunciation instruction sessions targeting
Phung Dao +2 more
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