THAI STUDENTS' DEVIATION IN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

Fackbook Implementation in Developing English Writing for Thai Students

The objectives of this research were to study FB implementation and attitudes in developing English writing skills of Thai students studying in the first year students program in EIC academic year 1/2014 at RMUTI, Surin Campus. The Purposive sampling was designed for data collecting. The instruments for this research were questionnaires and in-depth questions. The data analysis was analyzed by ...

Instantaneous estimation of prosodic pronunciation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation

More and more efforts have been recently made to apply speech technologies to language learning and develop CALL systems[1]–[4]. The authors have been focusing on Japanese manners of generating English word stress. This is because pronunciation habits which are inevitable to Japanese learners can be easily found in the stress generation. In our previous study, a stressed syllable detector and a...

Improving your English Pronunciation

Speaker adaptation using a parallel phone set pronunciation dictionary for Thai-English bilingual TTS

This paper develops a bilingual Thai-English TTS system from two monolingual HMM-based TTS systems. An English Nagoya HMM-based TTS system (HTS) provides correct pronunciations of English words but the voice is different from the voice in a Thai HTS system. We apply a CSMAPLR adaptation technique to make the English voice sounds more similar to the Thai voice. To overcome a phone mapping proble...

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...