The present study set out to identify the problematic areas of pronunciation among Iranian female EFL learners. Further, this study investigated the relationship between empathy and authentic pronunciation, along with gender as a moderator variable. Comparing segmental features and phonological processes of both languages helped teachers to predict the target errors. To reach such a goa...

Due to a lack of authentic learning resources, Chinese students often do not receive native pronunciation models in their classes. This study provided with an approach improve English pronunciation, specifically sound more like British Received Pronunciation (RP) or General American (GAEP). The proposes word stress prediction rules help non-native learners predict the primary words, improving v...

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...

Intelligibility and comprehensibility in English learners’ pronunciation plays a vital role effective communication. Empirical studies show that Chinese learners have difficulties achieving high level of intelligibility their pronunciation, one possible cause being the lack authentic context for practice. Mobile-assisted Language Learning (MALL), i.e., language learning assisted or enhanced thr...

The paper presents the algorithm of developing speech components aimed to be implemented into educational systems with elements of acoustic feedback. Such systems are demanded in the domain of distant education as far as foreign language teaching and pronunciation training is concerned. The need of such systems is evident because human teacher is not always at hand when the student needs phonet...

English pronunciation instruction is difficult for some reasons. Teachers are left without clear guidelines and are faced with contradictory practices for pronunciation instruction. There is no well-established systematic method of deciding what to teach, when, and how to do it. As a result of these problems, pronunciation instruction is less important and teachers are not very comfortable in t...

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 represent the developing status of pronunciation teaching and presents the current perspectives on pronunciation learning and teaching, coupled with innovative approaches and techniques/activities. It is argued that pronunciation teaching methodologies have changed over decades since the Reform Movement. The exact status of teaching pronunciation appeared first in the Audio L...

One of the many challenges which ESL/EFL learners face is issue incorrect pronunciation English words. This more serious in ESL contexts like Pakistan where get limited or no exposure to authentic language use. paper attempts explore factors contributing words by at undergraduate level Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. To this end, a questionnaire was distributed among 72 BS students three different...

Phonological free variation describes the phenomenon of there being more than one pronunciation for a word without any change in meaning (e.g. because, schedule, vehicle). The term also applies to words that exhibit different stress patterns (e.g. academic, resources, comparable) with no change in meaning or grammatical category. A corpus-based analysis of lexical stress variation is one way of...