Seeing how people hear you

French learners experiencing intelligibility through automatic speech recognition

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8938130
AutoresAurore Mroz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Aurore Patricia Mroz (0000-0001-9755-121X, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume51
Fascículo3
Páginas617-637
Data de publicação2018-08-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoForeign Language Annals (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0015-718X • E-ISSN: 1944-9720
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/flan.12348
OpenAlexW2885248422
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas20

Many language practitioners feel ill equipped to address learners’ pronunciation or have difficulties doing so because of limited class time, opportunities for individualized feedback, and approaches to evaluating intelligibility. However, it is crucial that students become understandable to native speakers who are unaccustomed to dealing with second language learners. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) offers one potentially practical way to answer these needs. Contributing to research on mobile‐assisted learning, this study investigated how two groups of college‐level second language French learners developed greater awareness of their own intelligibility using ASR in Gmail. Using an ecological approach (van Lier, ) and an experiential learning model (Kolb, ), while following up on Liakin, Cardoso, and Liakina (2017), as well as McCrocklin ( ), this study found that ASR could credibly simulate understanding by a native speaker, allowing learners to close the intelligibility gap and develop a sense of what successful interpersonal communication entails. Pedagogical implications are offered

Experiential learning · Intelligibility (philosophy · Interpersonal communication · Language acquisition · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Pronunciation · Communication · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Mobile Learning in Education · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems