An EFL CALL Teaching Aid for Self-directed Learning Using the AmiVoice Speech Recognition System: Automatic Scoring of the Fluency of Learners’ Utterances
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At Kyoto Junior College of Foreign Languages on the premises of Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Hospitality English, a new first-year English as a Foreign Language course was introduced in April 2008. Hospitality English, a one semester, one-and-half-hour per week course was designed to develop specific English spoken language skills to help students gain employment in the hotel industry in Japan. The context of all the language skill lessons was situational; and an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) CALL teaching aid for self-directed learning using the AmiVoice® speech recognition system which included video scenes of hotel employee-guest interactions in a Kyoto hotel enriched the situational language learning context. This course was linked to a hotel internship program which students in the course were expected to apply for as part of their English and Service Industry Studies. This paper reports on the development and refinement of the EFL CALL teaching aid and on the automatic scoring of the fluency of learners’ utterances.
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