In recent years, endorsed by the updated (2018) version of Common European Framework, intelligibility has replaced native-like pronunciation as a primary objective in foreign language teaching. But accent and continue to be central issues for university students languages. This volume presents results an investigation into attitudes some 370 first-year at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, first su...

There has been a growing realization of the importance of authentic human interactions attendant to both first and second language learning. By contrast to L1 learners, the older L2 learner faces a greatly changed learning environment and more adult-oriented communicative opportunities, and must overcome loss of aural sensitivity and limited exposure to the prosodic systems of expressiveness ap...

1 Introduction In addition to the existing computer programs that have been designed specifically for foreign language pronunciation (or intonation) training, a number of software packages are available today that can be used in phonetics classes, although they have not been developed for this particular purpose. The aim of this paper is to briefly analyse a speech recognition program and to co...

With the sudden shift to online teaching with COVID-19 in 2020, ELT professionals and EFL learners found themselves an environment relatively less interaction, distant from their ordinary classrooms. In such a setting, critical aspect of language teaching, oral corrective feedback (OCF), has become even more important for both sides. context emergency distance education, this study focuses on e...

My aim in this article is to examine the issue of whether or not to use the phonemic script in the language classroom. I began looking at this question in the context of two language classes I had who were preparing for an entrance test to enter the Air Traffic Control training school in Madrid. The English component of this test comprises a listening and an interactive section. Of the listenin...

This research was aimed to develop interactive video model for teaching pronunciation the tenth grade students. strategy choosen because it could interested students learn pronunciation.
 The researcher applied Research and Development (R&D) design. subject of this senior high school. data were quantitative qualitative data. outcome pre-test post-test results with included experts cont...

The aim of the paper: to identify theoretically possibilities using elements theatre art in work language correction and analyze effectiveness developed program for L R.The theoretical part paper analyzes development a child's speech combination with other factors influencing development. introduction theatrical educational process today is new approach tracking acquisition each learner.Based o...

In commercial materials for the teaching of second language (L2) pronunciation, common bottom-up approaches segment phonology into a series discrete and decontextualized linguistic components with rules that students are encouraged to internalize. Such seem out step recent acquisition (SLA) theory research emphasize central influence social context, interlocutor, empathy, nonverbal elements on ...