Online guided pronunciation practice helps adult EFL learners improve L2 prosody

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F22%3A73615687" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/22:73615687 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.32" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.32</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.32" target="_blank" >10.14712/24646830.2022.32</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Online guided pronunciation practice helps adult EFL learners improve L2 prosody
Original language description
This study tests the efficacy of a pronunciation course in developing advanced EFL learners’ expressive reading during a semester of online instruction. The course, designed for future English-language professionals, emphasises primacy of perception before production, the importanceof noticing phonetic detail, expert and peer feedback, and context-situated tasks. The magnitude of pitch movements and reading tempo were assessed before and after the course for a trained group, who received the pronunciation practice, and a comparison group attending a course about the theory and research of foreign accents in English. Only the Trained group’s expressive prosody improved: the learners slowed down their delivery and produced the utterances with a wider pitch range. The results suggest that adult foreign language learners can benefit from pronunciation training in a distance learning environment.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-09797S" target="_blank" >GA21-09797S: Learning to recognize words: a developmental cross-dialectal perspective</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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