British English: Received Pronunciation

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English Pronunciation Instruction: A Literature Review

English pronunciation instruction is difficult for some reasons. Teachers are left without clear guidelines and are faced with contradictory practices for pronunciation instruction. There is no well-established systematic method of deciding what to teach, when, and how to do it. As a result of these problems, pronunciation instruction is less important and teachers are not very comfortable in t...

Some Recent Developments in Standard British English Pronunciation and the Teaching of Efl

In most English departments at German universities the teaching of practical English phonetics has enjoyed a long and well-established tradition. In more recent times, such courses have not only dealt with the groundwork of English (mostly articulatory) phonetics, but also added relevant aspects of modern phonological theory, sociolinguistics and dialectology. Since the availability of language...

English to Indonesian Transliteration to Support English Pronunciation Practice

The work presented in this paper explores the use of Indonesian transliteration to support English pronunciation practice. It is mainly aimed for Indonesian speakers who have no or minimum English language skills. The approach implemented combines a rule-based and a statistical method. The rules of English-Phone-to-Indonesian-Grapheme mapping are implemented with a Finite State Transducer (FST)...

Improving English Pronunciation: An Automated Instructional Approach

This paper describes an experiment in which groups of children attempted to improve their English pronunciation using an English-language learning software, some English alms, and a speech-to-text software engine. The experiment was designed to examine two hypotheses. The arst is that speechto-text software, trained in an appropriate voice, can act as an evaluator of accent and clarity of speec...