Improving Pronunciation of English Vowel Sounds Through Listen and Repeat Technique at MAN 1 Palu

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Vowel Characteristics in the Assessment of L2 English Pronunciation

There is considerable need to utilise linguistically meaningful measures of second language (L2) proficiency that are based on perceptual cues used by humans to assess pronunciation. Previous research on non-native acquisition of vowel systems suggests a strong link between vowel production accuracy and speech intelligibility. It is well known that the acoustic and perceptual identification of ...

Pronunciation verification of English letter-sounds in preliterate children

Correctly reading letter-sounds is an essential first step towards reading words and sentences. Pronunciation assessment of letter-sounds is an important component of preliterate children’s education, and automating this process can have several advantages. We propose a method to automatically verify the pronunciations of a letter-sound task administered to kindergarteners and first graders in ...

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...

Computer Assisted Pronunciation Teaching (CAPT) and Pedagogy: Improving EFL learners’ Pronunciation Using Clear Pronunciation 2 Software

This study examined the impact of Clear Pronunciation 2 software on teaching English suprasegmental features, focusing on stress, rhythm and intonation. In particular, the software covers five topics in relation to suprasegmental features including consonant cluster, word stress, connected speech, sentence stress and intonation. Seven Iranian EFL learners participated in this study. The study l...