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Traditional Versus ASR-Based Pronunciation Instruction
CALICO Journal, 2020This paper presents a 15-week classroom study measuring the student outcomes of instructor-led pronunciation lessons versus entirely ASR-based pronunciation training. Seventy-six second-semester Spanish language learners were divided into two groups, one experimental (n=44) and one control (n=32).
Christina Garcia +2 more
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French pronunciation instruction using the PACE model
Foreign Language Annals, 2023AbstractAs an overwhelming amount of research has demonstrated that educator preparation programs do not adequately prepare instructors to teach pronunciation, this study aims to help teachers of foreign languages to implement and improve pronunciation instruction (PI) in their classroom by adapting PACE (Presentation, Attention, Co‐construction, and ...
Céline Rose, Adam F. McBride
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Automatic pronunciation scoring for language instruction
1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2002This work is part of an effort aimed at developing computer-based systems for language instruction; we address the task of grading the pronunciation quality of the speech of a student of a foreign language. The automatic grading system uses SRI's Decipher/sup TM/ continuous speech recognition system to generate phonetic segmentations.
H. Franco +3 more
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Arabic pronunciation instruction
Journal of Second Language PronunciationAbstract This study examined learner beliefs about Arabic pronunciation instruction and how classroom pronunciation practices affect learners’ speech comprehensibility. To this end, 10 native Arabic speakers and 16 English learners of Arabic with two different proficiency levels were recruited: novice high and intermediate, who answered questionnaires ...
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EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT PRONUNCIATION INSTRUCTION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF L2 PRONUNCIATION
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020AbstractThe current study compares the effects of two types of pronunciation instruction (segmental- and suprasegmental-based) on the development of second-year Chinese undergraduate students’ English pronunciation as against a group with no specific pronunciation (NSP) instruction.
Runhan Zhang, Zhou-min Yuan
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English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based Insights
2021English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-Based Insights connects findings from recent research on L2 English pronunciation with their pedagogical implications and applications, in order to bridge the gulf between pronunciation research and teaching practice. The volume’s 15 chapters cover a range of aspects that are central to pronunciation teaching,
Kirkova-Naskova, Anastazija +2 more
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English-medium instruction and pronunciation
2015Diese Dissertation geht der Frage nach, wie sich English-Medium Instruction (EMI) im Hochschulbereich auf die Aussprache der Studierenden auswirkt. Die Langzeitstudie, die hier präsentiert wird, wurde an der FH-Wien durchgeführt, wo eine von fünf Kohorten des BA-Studiengangs Unternehmensführung als bilinguale (deutsch/englisch) Variante angeboten wird.
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Pronunciation Instruction: Background, Techniques and Relevant Studies
2020This chapter describes the history and background to pronunciation instruction, detailing the first focus on speaking in the nineteenth century, through to the emergence of audiolingualism and its theoretical underpinnings. Contrastive analysis, error analysis, markedness theory, and their critiques are examined because these three ways of approaching ...
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Instruction in German Pronunciation
Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, 1977T. D. Griffen +2 more
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