Online guided pronunciation practice helps adult EFL learners improve L2 prosody
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21550561 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Šárka Šimáčková (0000-0002-9462-4169, Palacký University Olomouc), Václav Jonáš Podlipský (0000-0002-2173-4375, Palacký University Olomouc) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 2022 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-129 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AUC PHILOLOGICA (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0567-8269 • E-ISSN: 2464-6830 |
| Publisher | Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14712/24646830.2022.32 |
| OpenAlex | W4317036539 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This study tests the efficacy of a pronunciation course in developing advanced EFL learners’ expressive reading during a semester of online instruction. The course, designed for future English-language professionals, emphasises primacy of perception before production, the importance of noticing phonetic detail, expert and peer feedback, and context-situated tasks. The magnitude of pitch movements and reading tempo were assessed before and after the course for a trained group, who received the pronunciation practice, and a comparison group attending a course about the theory and research of foreign accents in English. Only the Trained group’s expressive prosody improved: the learners slowed down their delivery and produced the utterances with a wider pitch range. The results suggest that adult foreign language learners can benefit from pronunciation training in a distance learning environment
Foreign language · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Perception · Pronunciation · Prosody · Speech recognition · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
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