Self-Study of the MOOC English Pronunciation in a Global World: Metaphonetic Awareness and English Accent Variation

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.21.3.04

Marta A. Nowacka

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This paper reports on a study in which Polish first-year university students of English, self-studied the massive open and online course (henceforth MOOC) entitled “Pronunciation in a Global World” to gain some knowledge on the fundamentals of phonetics (the notion of comprehensibility, nativeness and identity; vowels, consonants and selected suprasegmentals) and English accent variation. Its two main goals are: firstly, to examine the MOOC’s impact on the participants’ understanding of basic phonetic concepts and, secondly, to obtain the users’ assessment of this MOOC’s attractiveness and usefulness.In general, the results do not give evidence for the positive influence of the MOOC course on the students’ meta-awareness of English phonetics, since there are statistically significant differences in only three of sixty-eight questions between the experimental and control group. Nevertheless, many informants regard the course as useful (72%) and attractive (49%).Although the results do not support the hypothesis of the MOOC’s beneficial role in facilitating the understanding of English phonetics our stand is that this online training could complement classroom teaching as a form of blended learning.

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自学 MOOC《全球英语发音》：隐喻意识和英语口音差异

本文报告了波兰大学英语专业一年级学生自学题为 "全球世界中的发音 "的大规模开放式在线课程（以下简称 MOOC）的研究情况，目的是获得一些语音学基础知识（可理解性、本土性和特性的概念；元音、辅音和选定的超音段）和英语口音变化方面的知识。其两个主要目标是：首先，研究 MOOC 对参与者理解基本语音概念的影响；其次，了解用户对该 MOOC 的吸引力和实用性的评价。总体而言，研究结果并不能证明 MOOC 课程对学生的英语语音元意识产生了积极影响，因为在 68 个问题中，实验组和对照组只有 3 个问题在统计学上存在显著差异。尽管结果并不支持 MOOC 在促进学生理解英语语音学方面发挥有益作用的假设，但我们的立场是，这种在线培训可以作为混合学习的一种形式，对课堂教学起到补充作用。

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.