This study examines the effect of Form-Focused Instruction (FFI) on the learning of weak forms in L2 pronunciation pedagogy. FFI treatment was designed to encourage learners to notice the gap of the target pronunciation, negotiate its phonetic form, and correct the output by themselves. Results of the treatment were compared with the non-FFI treatment involving sixty elementary to low intermedi...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of call/web-based instruction on improving efl learners’ pronunciation ability. to this end, 85 students who were enrolled in a language institute in rasht were selected as subjects. these students were given the oxford placement test in order to validate their proficiency levels. they were then divided into two groups of 30 and were rando...

This paper explores a novel approach of identifying pronunciation errors for the second language (L2) learners based on the landmark theory of human speech perception. Earlier works on the selection method of distinctive features and the likelihoodbased “goodness of pronunciation” (GOP) measurement have gained progress in several L2 languages, e.g. Dutch and English. However, the improvement of...

Consonant and vowel sounds of English (segmentals) carry a significant weight in communication. Pronunciation instruction focusing on segmental features has been found to be highly effective (e.g., Thomson & Derwing, 2015). However, students with different first languages (L1) or even from the same L1 backgrounds, have pronunciation needs. With limited class time, teachers cannot expected c...

Reading is essential to develop while learning English as a foreign language. Thus, this study focuses on aiding children enhance reading by first teaching them letter sounds instead of names. The goal teach how recognize and pronounce individual letters; if they can do so, combine those with reading. Additionally, mitigate the interference from sound L1 L2 in some words. method used answer res...

Detecting mispronunciations produced by non-native speakers and providing detailed instructive feedbacks are desired in computer assisted pronunciation training system (CAPT), as it is helpful to L2 learners to improve their pronunciation more effectively. In this paper, we present our preliminary study on detecting phonetic segmental mispronunciations on account of the erroneous articulation t...

In this paper, we present an acoustic-phonetic approach to automatic pronunciation error detection. Classifiers using techniques such as Linear Discriminant Analysis and Decision Trees were developed for three sounds that are frequently pronounced incorrectly by L2-learners of Dutch: / /, / / and / /. This paper will focus mainly on the problems with the latter phoneme. The acoustic properties ...

This paper proposes a formant-based approach for computer-assisted English vowel assessment. Various studies in formant-based speech synthesis have suggested the importance of formant coefficients; this motivates us to investigate pronunciation assessment using formant information instead of MFCC (Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients) alone. In particular, we explore the multistream HMM with the...