Pronunciation evaluation is an important module of every spoken language evaluation system. Automatic evaluation of quality of pronunciation that can mimic the performance of human assessors is a difficult task as human assessment accounts for several nuances of pronunciation including vowel substitutions and quality of consonants. This paper presents a novel approach that combines the knowledg...

This paper introduces our work and results related to a multiple language continuous speech recognition task. The aim was to design a system that introduces tolerable amount of recognition errors for point of interest words in voice navigational queries even in the presence of real-life traffic noise. Additional challenges were that no task-specific training databases were available for languag...

computer-assisted language learning (call) is reaching an up most position in the pedagogical field of english as a second or foreign language (esl/efl). the present study was carried out to study the effect of using phonetic websites on iranian efl students’ pronunciation and knowledge of phonemic symbols. participants of the study included 30 efl female pre-intermediate students studying in k...

this study aimed at investigating the impact of utilizing call on efl learners’ foreign accent reduction. to this end, 62 participants out of 100 undergraduate freshman english students at islamic azad university central tehran branch were ed based on a piloted sample pet and a text-to-read. the ed participants were then nonrandomly assigned to an experimental and a control group, each containi...

The Mismatch Negativity (MMN) response has often been used to measure memory traces for phonological representations and to show effects of long-term native language (L1) experience on neural organization. We know little about whether phonological representations of non-native (L2) phonemes are modulated by experience with distinct non-native accents. We used MMN to examine effects of experienc...

This paper investigates whether individual speakers forming a homogeneous group differ in their choice and pronunciation of words when engaged in casual conversation, and if so, how they differ. More specifically, it examines whether the Balanced Winnow classifier is able to distinguish between the twenty speakers of the Ernestus Corpus of Spontaneous Dutch, who all have the same social backgro...

introduction: language teachers can help students improve their learning of english by employing different approaches and taking into consideration various learning styles of their students. this study is an attempt to reveal the effect of cooperative learning (cl) on enhancing nursing students’ english pronunciation. methods: twenty five nursing students and thirty midwifery students in yasuj ...

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...

The usefulness of teaching pronunciation in language instruction remains controversial. Though past research suggests that teachers can make little or no difference in improving their students’ pronunciation,  current  findings  suggest  that  second  language  pronunciation  can  improve  to  be near  native-like  with  the  implementation  of  certain  criteria  such  as  the  utilization  of...