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Can pronunciation be taught? A review of research and implications for teaching

open access: yesRevista 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
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating Pronunciation Material Tasks and Method of Teaching in Sunrise Series 7-9

open access: yesمجلة جامعة كويه للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية, 2021
This study is an attempt to investigate pronunciation material and tasks and/or activities along with teaching methods in Sunrise 7-9 series adopted by the ministry of education in KRG to be taught in basic schools all over Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Pakhshan I. Hamad   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Training novel phonemic contrasts: a comparison of identification and oddity discrimination training [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
High Variability Pronunciation Training (HVPT) is a highly successful alternative to ASR-based pronunciation training. It has been demonstrated that HVPT is effective in teaching the perception of non-native phonemic contrasts, and that this skill ...
Handley, Zöe   +2 more
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Good English Pronunciation Users and their Pronunciation Learning Strategies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The study investigates pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) deployed by those with good English pronunciation, as well as their beliefs concerning the variables that affect pronunciation competence.
Szyszka, Magdalena
core   +2 more sources

Uncovering the Origin of Efficiency Roll‐Off in TADF OLEDs

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
OLEDs based on thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) materials often suffer from a severe drop in efficiency at high brightness levels. This work presents a technique to uncover the source of this efficiency drop, and quantifies the exciton‐exciton and exciton‐polaron annihilation processes responsible for efficiency losses in our TADF OLEDs ...
Liam G. King   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Native-speaker and English as a lingua franca pronunciation norms: English majors’ views

open access: yesStudies 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
doaj   +1 more source

English pronunciation training through the eyes of university graduates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of the current study is to examine the program of pronunciation training and its implementation from a new perspective, which is that of MA graduates.
Balnaves   +25 more
core   +2 more sources

Robust Polymer Hydrogels Improve Electric‐Fish‐Inspired Batteries

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electric‐fish‐inspired hydrogel batteries based on ion‐concentration gradients offer an attractive route to soft power sources; however, the poor mechanical properties of existing hydrogels limit device assembly and performance. Here, we report poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate hydrogels that enable ion‐gradient batteries composed of
Nick Zahnd   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING PRONUNCIATION THROUGH JAZZ CHANTS METHOD

open access: yesInspiring, 2019
This study expected to find out the effectiveness of teaching pronunciation through jazz chants and the students’ response toward the implementation of jazz chants method in teaching pronunciation at the eight grade of MTsN Parepare.
Nurhayati Nurhayati, Nurhamdah Nurhamdah
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching American English Pronunciation [PDF]

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, 1993
Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90316/1/3587415 ...
Alan Hirvela, Peter Avery, Susan Ehrlich
openaire   +2 more sources

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