Pronunciation and Independent Work: Embedding Pronunciation into Academic English Skill Classes

Australian English pronunciation into the 21st century

Australian English is traditionally considered to be the form of English spoken by people who are born in Australia or who immigrate at an early age and whose peer network consists of Australian English speakers (Bernard 1981). Such a simple definition implies that Australian English is a single form, which all native-born Australians will attain and exhibit. This paper will review segmental as...

Improving your English Pronunciation

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...

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...

Automatic evaluation and training in English pronunciation

SRI is developing a system that uses real time speech recognition to diag nose, evaluate and provide training in spoken English. The paper first describes the methods and results of a study of the feasibility of automati cally grading the performance of Japanese students when reading English aloud. Utterances recorded from Japanese speakers were independently rated by expert listeners. Speech g...