In this paper, we examine the relationship between pedagogy and technology in Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) courseware. First, we will analyse available literature on second language pronunciation teaching and learning in order to derive some general guidelines for effective training. Second, we will present an appraisal of various CAPT systems with a view to establishing whet...

Automatic speech recognition is used to assess spoken English learner pronunciation based on the authentic intelligibility of the learners’ spoken responses determined from deep neural network (DNN) model predictions of transcription correctness. Using numeric features produced by PocketSphinx alignment mode and many recognition passes searching for the substitution and deletion of each expecte...

This study aims to determine how well an automatic speech recognition (ASR) tool could be used in online EFL course help L1 Japanese students improve their pronunciation. Previous studies have suggested that ASR tools can helpful this regard, but few dealt with entirely or attempted use the data which lessons were most impactful. Therefore, we a mixture of pre- and posttest survey results would...

The current study presents two meta-analyses to explore what underlies the assessment and teaching of comprehensible nativelike pronunciation among English-as-a-Second-Language speakers. In Study 1, listener studies (n = 37) were retrieved examining influence segmental, prosodic, temporal features on listeners’ intuitive judgements comprehensibility nativelikeness/accentedness as per different ...

Many researchers agree to say that English teachers generally lack adequate skills teach pronunciation properly (Macdonald, 2002; Chen & Goh, 2010), and "there is a definite need for more courses ESL teachers" (Derwing, 2010, p.27). We propose present survey was conducted with 60 French primary school 71 secondary of English. The study in several private public schools high schools. Through...

This study aimed to identify the portions of teaching materials for English classes in Iran’s high schools. The efficiency of these materials was evaluated by (a) eliciting the teachers’ perception of the materials to identify their distribution portions and (b) studying the teachers’ satisfaction to identify whether the materials were successful to develop the EFL teachers’ knowledge and skill...

In the Laboratory of Speech Acoustics prosody recognition experiments have been prepared, in which, among the others, we were searching for the possibilities of the recognition of sentence modalities. Due to our promising results in the sentence modality recognition, we adopted the method for children modality recognition, and looked for the possibility, how it can be used as an automatic feedb...

The article deals with the way of solution to main problems in making Chinese Characters Introduction online course, which are extent theoretical part, teaching radicals, necessity pronunciation Mastering practical Testing acquired knowledge, as well some technical issues such encoding problems, etc.

This collaborative action research involving a lecturer and student researcher intended to enhance group of final-year students’ business communication skills prepare them for employment. study deployed the cycle: Identify-Plan-Act-Reflect. The pre-test results found that students had difficulties communicating confidently interacting clearly in discussions, they were unable exhibit good impres...